Description
When must safety signs be used?
Safety signs must be used whenever a hazard or danger can not 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 doing the work.
What regulations apply to safety signs?
The Safety Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 (Chapter 1 of Part 7: Safety Signs at Places of Work) apply to safety signs.
What types of safety signs are there?
A safety sign provides information about safety or health and can be a signboard, colour, acoustic 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?
Safety signboards should not contain text. 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.
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.
Can any text be included on a safety sign?
Safety signboards put in place after 1 November 2007 should not contain text. Text may be included on a supplementary signboard provided that it does not adversely affect the effectiveness of the safety signboard.
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.
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