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Safety begins with Notice and Stop signs

August

25th

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All employers have to guide behaviour, inform of the locations of emergency equipment and the location and nature of any hazardous materials – safety signs do all the hard work. This extensive system of signs has over two thousand designs and covers every situation imaginable.

To perform this wide variety of tasks, a safety sign advises on behaviour and the points of emergency equipment and dangerous materials.

So broad is the selection that functional groups have been logically established. Those groups in ascending order of “need to obey”, start with the informational, notice signs, stop signs, caution signs, danger signs, and arrive at obey signs where the expected action being communicated MUST be followed.

Of all the functional groups the Notice sign commands or should we say, demands least observance – it is informational in content. The banners for this group include “Notice”, Restricted area signs, Security Notices, and Be Careful.

Whilst there is often no clear line between the various sign texts, the strength of the content is carried by the banner.

Next in order of “listen to me” are the Stop Signs. These are designed to delineated actions that are not permitted. These signs cover what is anticipated behaviour of employees. Failure to follow these signs advisory content is not at all likely to contribute to personal injury or accident. However, these signs often are for legislated requirements and failure to observe them may have legal implications.

You’ll get the picture by the fact that common signs of this group include, No Smoking, No Thoroughfare, No Entry and so on. They often demand customization for the many unique situations that are around.

Placing the safety signs at the workplace is the task of the employer, but complying with them, the task of the employee. The more life threatening the message content the greater the onus on the employer to deliver appropriate training and for the employee to rigidly follow the message of the sign – safe work is no accident.

For each functional group there is a different graphic format; color coded and principally respecting internationally established conventions with local quirks that do need to be respected. Each group is graphically the same, with a banner unique in color and graphical style to that group.