The workplace can expose one to various hazards. Potential accidents should be minimised at all costs as production, income and staff wellbeing usually suffer.
When must safety signs be used?
Safety signs must be used wherever a hazard cannot be avoided adequately or reduced in another way. Before installing safety signs, an employer should examine whether the hazard can be avoided or reduced by collective precautions (precautions that protect everybody) or safer ways of working.
Various types of safety signs
A safety sign provides information about safety or health, which can take the form of a signboard, colour, audio signal, verbal communication, or hand signal.
What is a signboard?
A signboard is a sign that provides information or instruction using a combination of shape, colour and symbols but excludes information in writing.
Why must safety signboards not contain text?
Symbols or pictograms on a signboard are intended to be understood, regardless of the employee’s language ability.
How will workers understand the meaning of safety signs?
Employers must provide information to employees outlining the meaning and requirements of any signs used in the workplace, especially where text on supplementary signboards is used.
What is a Supplementary Signboard?
A supplementary signboard (often with text) is used to give clarity to a signboard. A signboard and supplementary signboard can be located on one ‘carrier’. A carrier could be a single sheet of metal, plywood, laminated plastic or other material as might be appropriate to a location.
How will workers understand the meaning of safety signs?
Employers must provide information to employees on the meaning and requirements of any signs used in the workplace, especially where text on supplementary signboards is used.
What colours and shapes should be used on safety signboards?
- Red for prohibition
- Yellow for caution
- Green for positive action
- Blue for mandatory actions
- O Discs for prohibitions and instructions
- Δ Triangles for warnings
- □ Squares and rectangles for emergency and information signs
Examples of Prohibition Signs
Examples of Mandatory Signs
Examples of Warning Signs
Workplace safety encompasses all aspects of maintaining a safe workplace, including workplace violence, drug or alcohol abuse, environmental health risks and unsafe work practices and conditions. Hazards in the workplace can be reduced to safeguard workers.
Specific safety and warning signs are typically found on work sites in industrial industries and used to alert of danger and hazards. Prohibition Signs, Mandatory Signs and Warning Signs help reduce accidents and injuries. Tags & Tickets has a large range of signs to keep your workplace safe by meeting compliance requirements.
Safety Tags
Clearly readable safety tags helps to minimise or prevent accidents and reduces the downtime they cause. We offer a range of safety tags to inform workers and comply with safety regulations. In addition to mandatory signage and clothing stickers, the company supplies specialised safety tickets and tags such as hazard warnings, information notices etc. Production Status Tags come in a wide variety to help monitor and control production and equipment maintenance. Below are some of examples of these tags.
More About the Tags & Signage
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