What are the 9 safety symbols?

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Here are the nine safety symbols or pictograms and what they mean:

  • Exploding bomb - explosives
  • Flame - flammable 
  • Flame over circle - oxidising 
  • Corrosion - corrosive
  • Skull and Crossbones - acute toxicity
  • Environment - hazardous to the environment
  • Exclamation mark - health hazard/hazardous to the ozone layer
  • Health hazard - serious health hazard
  • Gas cylinder - gas under pressure

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