What is the name for the universal fire symbol? (Flaming house) Are there any other universal symbols? (Agent release, lockdown)
The symbol for lockdown is a padlock
The running green man is the universal symbol for emergency exits. Fire hydrants and extinguishers has their universal symbols resembling themselves.
Emergency cutoff/shutdown/stop switches usually has at lease one of these universal characters: A yellow ring, one or multiple (in most cases, three) rotating arrows, a circle with reversed triangle inside, or letters like “EMS” “EMO” “NOT-AUS” “E-STOP”.
Manual call points have a universal label: A hand reaching a red button next to some flames. However this label is unlikely to be seen near pull stations.
Agent release doesn’t really has a “universal” symbol, probably because nearly all areas equipped with suppression systems are for authorized personnel only so someone from abroad is extremely unlikely to enter these areas. I’ve seen symbols like: (1)Someone wearing a respirator with an oxygen tank on his back; (2)A gas bottle with a pipe spraying extinguishing agent onto some flames; (3) A “shower head” labeled with the type of agent (this symbol is especially widely used on ships); (4) Someone suffocated by some “powdered substance” coming into his lungs.
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Mhm. Is there a technical name for the fire symbol? (The flaming house)