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ISO 7010 · P-series · Prohibition

P022 No eating or drinking

Our drawing, not ISO’s artwork.

Eating and drinking are not allowed here.

ISO 7010 reference
P022
Registered title
No eating or drinking ISO Online Browsing Platform, ISO 7010 - P022, No eating or drinking, reference number and registered title
Colour and shape
Red ring with a diagonal bar, black symbol on white: Prohibition: do not do this here

What the red ring with a diagonal bar means

In HSE’s guidance on the UK Safety Signs and Signals Regulations 1996, a prohibition sign has a round shape Health and Safety Executive (HSE), L64 Safety signs and signals: The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996. Guidance on Regulations (third edition), Part 2, prohibitory signs, intrinsic features (a), page 14 and a black pictogram on white background, red edging and diagonal line (the red part to take up at least 35% of the area of the sign) Health and Safety Executive (HSE), L64 Safety signs and signals: The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996. Guidance on Regulations (third edition), Part 2, prohibitory signs, intrinsic features (b), page 14

Its colour stands for: Prohibition sign, Dangerous behaviour; stop; shutdown; emergency cut-out devices; evacuate Health and Safety Executive (HSE), L64 Safety signs and signals: The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996. Guidance on Regulations (third edition), Table 1, red, meaning or purpose (page 12)

In the UK: HSE L64

L64 does not name this sign. What it says about the whole class applies:

In the US: OSHA

OSHA’s rule below is about the hazard or the equipment, not about the sign itself.

  • No employee shall be allowed to consume food or beverages in a toilet room nor in any area exposed to a toxic material. US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 29 CFR 1910.141 Sanitation, 1910.141(g)(2)

Signs people confuse with it, or find beside it

Other prohibition signs

Sources

ISO 7010 is a paid standard. Its OBP entries are free to view, but they are a script-driven app, so the title and reference number above are copied from the entry's own heading as it lists them (read 2026-09-29), not from the paid text. Other lines in quotation marks are HSE’s or OSHA’s words.