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• Regulations require employers to use and maintain safety signs where there is a significant risk to health and safety that has not been avoided or controlled by other means, like engineering controls or safe systems of work, and where the use of a sign can help reduce the risk.

• They apply to all workplaces and to all activities where people are Employed.

• The Regulations require, where necessary, the use of road traffic signs in workplaces to regulate road traffic.

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• Safety colours• (a) Red• Red is a safety colour and must be used for any:• ◆ Prohibition sign concerning dangerous

behaviour (e.g. the safety colour on a ‘No Smoking ’ sign).

• Prohibition signs must be round,• with a black pictogram on a white background

with red edging and• a red diagonal line (top left, bottom right)

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Speed limit.No passageway

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Any Red and White sign with a line through means:

“ Not Allowed or Must Not”

NO SMOKING

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• ◆ Danger alarm concerning stop, shutdown, emergency cutout devices,

• evacuate (e.g. the safety colour of an emergency stop button on

• equipment).• ◆ Fire-fighting equipment.• Red and white alternating stripes may be used

for marking surface• areas to show obstacles or dangerous locations.

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Other fire fighting equipment

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FIRE HOSE REELPRESS HERE TO SOUND THE FIRE ALARM

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• Danger signs should be used only where an immediate hazard exists.

• Danger signs should have red as the dominant colour for the upper panel;

• black outline on the boarders; • and a white lower panel for additional sign

wording.

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• Yellow• Yellow (or amber) is a safety colour and must be

used for any warning• sign concerning the need to be careful, take

precautions, examine or• the like (e.g. the safety colour on hazard signs,

such as for flammable• material, electrical danger, etc.).

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• Warning signs must be triangular, with a black pictogram on a yellow (or amber) background with black edging

General warning. Forklift trucks.

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FLAMMABLE SUBSTANCE

WARNING - LASER BEAMS

Yellow + Black = HAZARD WARNING

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TOXIC

EXPLOSIVE

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• Yellow and black alternating stripes may be used for marking surface

• areas to show obstacles or dangerous locations

• Yellow may be used in continuous lines showing traffic routes.

Striped obstacle marking.

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• Blue• Blue is a safety colour and must be used for any

mandatory sign• requiring specific behaviour or action (e.g. the

safety colour on a• ‘ Safety Helmet Must Be Worn ’ sign or a

‘Pedestrians Must Use This• Route’ sign). Mandatory signs must be round,

with a white pictogram• on a blue background

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Hearing protection Gloves required.

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YOU MUST WEAR OVERALLS

YOU MUST WEAR SAFETY GLOVES

YOU MUST WEAR EAR DEFENDERS

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Blue + White = Mandatory or Must Do

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• Green is a safety colour and must be used for emergency escape signs

• (e.g. showing emergency doors, exits and routes) and first aid signs

• (e.g. showing location of first aid equipment and facilities). Escape and

• first aid signs must be rectangular or square, with a white pictogram

• on a green background. The green part must take up at least 50% of

• the area of the sign. no danger (e.g. for ‘return to normal ’)

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Green + White = SAFETY Information

First Aid Kit

Safe Route to Fire Exit

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Means of escape sign.

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Blue/White=Must Do

Red/White=Must NOT Do

Green/White=Safety Information

Yellow/Black=H&S Hazard Warning

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