معدات السلامة قرب لوحة الإنذار.

It can be understood either way, but in context it is most naturally a short sign-style phrase.

Literally, it is something like:

• معدات السلامة = safety equipment
• قرب لوحة الإنذار = near the alarm panel

On a sign, Arabic often uses this kind of compact wording without needing a complete English-style sentence.

In Arabic, the verb to be is usually not stated in the present tense.

So if you read this as a full sentence, it means:

• معدات السلامة قرب لوحة الإنذار
• The safety equipment is near the alarm panel

The word is is simply understood. This is very normal in Arabic.

This is an iḍāfa construction, often called a genitive construct.

It literally means:

• معدات = equipment
• السلامة = safety

So together:

• معدات السلامة = safety equipment
  literally: equipment of safety

In Arabic, this is a very common way to express X of Y or noun+noun relationships.

Because in an iḍāfa construction, the first noun normally does not take الـ.

So Arabic says:

• معدات السلامة not
• المعدات السلامة

The definiteness comes from the second noun. Since السلامة is definite, the whole phrase becomes definite.

The same pattern appears again in:

• لوحة الإنذار = the alarm panel

Here too, the first noun does not take الـ.

For the same reason: this is also an iḍāfa construction.

• لوحة = panel / board
• الإنذار = the alarm / the warning

So:

• لوحة الإنذار = the alarm panel

In iḍāfa:

1. the first noun usually has no الـ
2. the second noun shows definiteness

So اللوحة الإنذار would be ungrammatical here.

Here قرب means near or close to.

So:

• قرب لوحة الإنذار = near the alarm panel

In this sentence, قرب functions as a word of location. It is very common in formal Arabic and on signs.

A longer alternative you may also see is:

• بالقرب من لوحة الإنذار = near the alarm panel

But قرب by itself is shorter and more compact, which suits signs well.

Grammatically, معدات is a plural form. It is commonly used to mean equipment.

That is important because English equipment is usually an uncountable singular-looking noun, while Arabic معدات is morphologically plural.

So the match is not word-for-word:

• English: equipment
• Arabic: معدات

This is a very normal kind of mismatch between the two languages.

Because English and Arabic do not always handle definiteness in exactly the same way, especially in labels and signs.

In Arabic, معدات السلامة is grammatically definite because it is an iḍāfa ending in a definite noun.

But in English signage, we often prefer a simpler label such as:

• Safety equipment rather than
• The safety equipment

So the Arabic may be structurally definite, while the best natural English sign translation is still just Safety equipment.

It can relate to both ideas, depending on context.

The root meaning is connected to warning / alerting. In building and safety contexts, الإنذار often refers to an alarm, especially a fire or emergency alarm.

So:

• لوحة الإنذار is naturally understood as the alarm panel
• in another context, إنذار could also mean warning

Context decides which English word is best.

A careful pronunciation is:

muʿaddātu s-salāmati qurb(a) lawḥati l-indhār(i)

A simpler learner-friendly version is:

mu-addaat as-salaamah qurb lawhat al-indhaar

A few notes:

• معدات begins with mu-
• لوحة has the strong Arabic ḥ sound: lawḥa
• الإنذار begins with al-, but in connected speech the vowels may sound smoother than in slow citation form

If you want the fully vowelled form, it is usually written as:

مُعَدَّاتُ السَّلَامَةِ قُرْبَ لَوْحَةِ الْإِنْذَارِ

In fully vocalized formal Arabic, you would usually analyze it as:

مُعَدَّاتُ السَّلَامَةِ قُرْبَ لَوْحَةِ الْإِنْذَارِ

That gives:

• مُعَدَّاتُ — nominative
• السَّلَامَةِ — genitive, because it is the second noun in iḍāfa
• قُرْبَ — accusative as an adverbial expression of place
• لَوْحَةِ — genitive after قرب in this construction
• الْإِنْذَارِ — genitive as the second noun in iḍāfa

In everyday reading, signs usually omit these short vowels, so learners normally see:

معدات السلامة قرب لوحة الإنذار

without the endings written.

Yes. That is a perfectly natural alternative.

Compare:

• قرب لوحة الإنذار = near the alarm panel
• بالقرب من لوحة الإنذار = near / in the vicinity of the alarm panel

The version with بالقرب من is slightly longer and often feels a bit more explicit.
The shorter قرب version is especially common in concise formal writing and signage.