One list of the standards, IMO resolutions, measurement methods and regulations named on this site, with what each one covers and where it is referenced. Which of them applies to an installation depends on the application and on the rules of the jurisdiction or flag it falls under.
Safety signs and colours
These standards settle what a safety sign looks like: which symbol, in which shape and colour, and how the finished sign is classified.
The register of safety signs: the graphical symbols used for accident prevention, fire protection, health hazard information and emergency evacuation. It is adopted in Europe as EN ISO 7010. New signs are added by amendment. Referenced on: Safety signs, Floor marking.
Safety identification colours and design principles for safety signs and safety markings in workplaces and public areas. It fixes which colour and which geometric shape carry which meaning, and the signs in ISO 7010 take both from it. Referenced on: Safety signs, Floor marking, Pipe marking.
Design principles for product safety labels. A product safety label sits on the product itself and warns about a risk in using it; a sign in the surroundings is the subject of Part 1. Referenced on: Safety signs.
Design principles for the graphical symbols used in safety signs. These are the rules a symbol is drawn by, including a symbol that is not in the ISO 7010 register. Referenced on: Safety signs.
Escape routes
Way guidance is assessed as an installed system. A photoluminescent sign or tape is a component of such a system; how its photoluminance is measured is set out in the next section.
Design and application principles for the visual components of a safety way guidance system in buildings. It is assessed for the installed system, not for a single sign or tape. Referenced on: Safety signs, Emergency exit signs.
Escape and evacuation plan signs for buildings: how a plan is laid out, oriented and scaled, using the symbols of ISO 7010. Referenced on: the guide to photoluminescent marking.
Emergency lighting, published jointly with the CIE as CIE S 020. It is listed for context: emergency lighting and photoluminescent marking are separate subjects, and which of them an installation needs is a design decision. Referenced on: the guide to photoluminescent marking.
Measurement and test methods
A method states how a property is measured or classified. It is not a requirement that a product fulfils on its own; a specification or a regulation decides which value or class is required, and a stated value always carries the method and conditions behind it.
A German method for measuring and classifying phosphorescent pigments and products at the producer. A photoluminance value means something only together with the method and the conditions it was measured under, and no value or class is stated on this site without the measurement report behind it. Referenced on: Safety signs, Floor marking, the guide to photoluminescent marking, the guide to reading a data sheet.
Colorimetric and photometric requirements and test methods for the colours of safety signs, including phosphorescent material used in unlit surroundings. It is the part that makes a safety colour measurable. Referenced on: the guide to photoluminescent marking.
Classification, performance and durability of safety signs. It classifies a sign by service environment, material and photometric properties and gives the test methods, which is the basis for stating an expected service life. Referenced on: Safety signs, the data sheet guide.
Maritime
Signage on board follows IMO resolutions that apply under SOLAS chapters II-2 and III, together with ISO standards for design, placement and plans. Resolution A.1116(30) did not withdraw the two earlier resolutions listed here. What a vessel has to carry is decided by its flag administration and its classification society.
Escape route signs and equipment location markings. It applies to ships built on or after 1 January 2019, and to ships undergoing repairs, alterations or outfitting from that date. Referenced on: Maritime signs.
Symbols related to life-saving appliances and arrangements. It remains in force alongside A.1116(30). Referenced on: Maritime signs.
Graphical symbols for shipboard fire control plans. It applies to ships built on or after 1 January 2004. Referenced on: Maritime signs.
General design principles for shipboard safety signs, fire control plan signs, safety notices and safety markings. Referenced on: Maritime signs.
Code of practice for shipboard safety signs: where on board they belong and how they are used together. Referenced on: Maritime signs.
Shipboard plans for fire control, damage control, life-saving appliances and means of escape: their content, design and layout, and the graphical symbols used on them. Referenced on: Maritime signs.
Pipes, tanks and chemicals
Marking the content of pipes and tanks draws on three ISO standards, and on chemicals legislation for the hazard pictograms.
Safety information for the content of overground piping systems: what a marker states about the content and its hazards. Buried piping is outside its scope. Referenced on: Safety marking, Pipe marking.
Safety information for the content of tanks. It is the companion to Part 1, which covers piping. Referenced on: Safety marking, Pipe marking.
Identification colours for the content of piping systems aboard ship. It works by colour code, where ISO 20560 works by information labels. Referenced on: Maritime signs (IMO pipe marking).
Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. It is the binding basis for chemical hazard labelling in the EU and sets out the hazard pictograms GHS01 to GHS09. Referenced on: Safety marking, Pipe marking.
The United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. It is a recommendation and takes legal effect through implementing legislation, which in the EU is CLP. Referenced on: Safety marking, Pipe marking.
Public information
Information for the public has its own register of symbols, separate from the safety signs.
The register of public information symbols, such as those for toilets, lifts and information points. It is the counterpart to ISO 7010 for information rather than safety, and symbols are added by amendment. Referenced on: the guide to ISO 7010, ISO 3864 and ISO 7001.
No. The page says what each standard covers and where this site refers to it. What can be stated about a product depends on the product line and on the documentation behind it, so ask for the documentation of the product you are specifying.
That is decided by the application and by the rules it falls under: national workplace and building regulations on land, and the flag administration and classification society at sea. A standard becomes a requirement when a regulation, a contract or a specification calls for it. Name the standards your specification asks for when you contact a distributor.
No. A method such as DIN 67510-1 describes how a property is measured or classified. A specification or a regulation decides which value or class is required, and a value is only meaningful together with the method and the conditions it was measured under.
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