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A figure passing through an archway, marking the security search point.
Also known as: Security check symbol, Screening point sign, Airport security symbol
The security screening symbol shows a figure passing through an arch, marking the point at which passengers and their belongings are searched. It is where the rules change: beyond it, what may be carried is restricted, and the restrictions are national rather than international, which is why the same item is permitted in one airport and confiscated in the next. Related marks show a bag on a belt for the cabin-baggage scanner and a tray for the divesting step.
Marks the point at which passengers and belongings are searched, and belongs to the international public-information vocabulary that makes an airport navigable without language.
Contexts: Public information, Navigation
Marks a boundary where the rules change and are national rather than international, which is why an item permitted through one airport's screening is confiscated at the next.
Contexts: Public information
A standing figure drawn between two vertical posts joined by a horizontal bar above the head, forming an arch around it.
Both are registered public information symbols in the airport vocabulary.