Safety Signs

Safety signs must be used when there is a hazard or danger that cannot be avoided adequately or reduced. Before installing safety signs an employer should determine whether the hazard can be avoided or reduced by collective precautions or safer ways of doing the work.

A safety sign provides information about safety or health and can be a signboard, colour, acoustic signal, verbal communication, or hand signal.

This is because the symbols or pictograms on a signboard are intended to be understood, independently of the language ability of the worker viewing it.

All self-adhesive vinyl signs are made from flexible gloss vinyl with a permanent self-adhesive vinyl backing. All rigid plastic signs are made from 1mm thick HIP plastic. All photo-luminescent plastic signs are made from Class B photo-luminescent rigid plastic.

Self-adhesive vinyl signs will adhere to most smooth clean surfaces with their permanent self-adhesive backing. Rigid plastic signs are supplied with 4 double sided adhesive pads so you can stick to the four corners of the sign.

• Red for prohibition
• Yellow for caution
• Green for positive action
• Blue for mandatory actions
• O Discs for prohibitions and instructions
• Triangles for warnings
• Squares and rectangles for emergency and information signs

Employers must make sure that

• Fire and important emergency procedures can be easily identified
• First aid equipment and appointed first aiders can be located
• Dangerous substances and areas are made aware of
• Risks and hazards are identified when they have not been avoided or controlled by other means (EG hot water taps)
• Employers are made aware of traffic that’s needs to be redirected within a workplace

Signs are not supplied with drilled holes.

We do not provide any in packs.

Where a signboard is already in place before 1 November 2007 and it meets all the requirements of Part 7 and Schedule 9 to the General Application Regulations 2007, except that it contains text, an employer may leave that signboard in place until 1 January 2011.