What are safety Signs and signals and what are their shape, color etc.?
Do you know The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996?
What are the precautions to be taken while displaying Safety signs and signals?
Safety Signs and signals are being used by any organisation at
workplace to aware workforce about the set of instructions without physically
present. While moving around the workplace, workforce look at those and
understand the objective of signage’s and signals. For example traditional
safety signs such as ‘No entry’ signs, and other means of communicating health
and safety information such as hand signals, acoustic signals (eg warning
sirens on machines) and verbal communications such as prerecorded evacuation
messages. If you are an employer you have a legal duty to consult with your
employees on matters relating to health and safety in the workplace. Signboards
can be of the following types:
1- Prohibition
signage
2- Warning
Signage
3- Mandatory
Signage
4- Emergency
escape or first aid signage
Hand signal – a movement or position of the arms or hands
giving a recognized signal and guiding people who are carrying out maneuvers
which are a hazard or danger to people. Usually this is related to traffic
signals and rigger signals at workplace.
Safety Signs Colors:
Prohibition Sign and Danger
alarm- Red
Warning Sign – Yellow
Mandatory Sign- Blue
Emergency Escape, First aid and
No Danger Sign- Green
Safety Signs Instructions:
Prohibition
Sign and Danger alarm- Dangerous
behaviour; stop; shutdown; emergency cut-out devices; evacuate
Warning
Sign- Be careful; take precautions; examine
Mandatory
Sign- Specific behaviour or action, eg wear protective equipment
Emergency
Escape, First aid and No Danger Sign-
Doors; exits; escape routes; equipment, facilities return to normal
Precautions while using signboard:
1- They
are large enough for visibility and free from any ambiguity.
2- Adequate
illumination is present.
3- Durable,
fastened properly and maintained.
4- Avoid
using too many signboards in a single place.
5- Obsolete
information signboard shall be removed immediately post obsolete information.
6- Only
required information and as less as much possible shall be provided in
pictogram.
Signboards Dimensions and its background:
1-
Prohibition
Sign:
a) round
shape;
b) 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).
2-
Warning
Sign:
Intrinsic
features:
(a)- Triangular
shape;
(b) Black
pictogram on a yellow background with black edging (the yellow part to take up
at least 50% of the area of the sign).
3-
Mandatory
Sign:
Intrinsic
features:
(a) Round shape;
(b) White
pictogram on a blue background (the blue part to take up at least 50% of the
area of the sign).
4-
Emergency
Escape or First Aid Sign:
Intrinsic
features:
(a) Rectangular
or square shape;
(b) White
pictogram on a green background (the green part to take up at least 50% of the
area of the sign).
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