The safety labels placed on today’s products serve three essential purposes:
A product safety label must convey a critically important message to all kinds of people in every kind of working situation - from the time a product is transported, installed and operating, to its decommission and final disposal. Our safety labels protect workers from every kind of hazard: moving gears, rollers, pinch points, arc flash and more. To learn more about safety labels, choose a topic below.
Clarion safety labels are actually a composite of compatible premium quality material layers, each with a distinct function. The illustration below shows the material components used in the production of our standard safety labels.
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The National Electrical Code 110.16 broke new ground in the field of arc flash safety in a number of important ways. By referencing other standards, as 110.16 does, it serves to integrate and link the critical task of safety across different jurisdictions and industrial groups. The standard makes note of both NFPA 70E-2000 - Electrical Safety Requirements for Employee Workplaces, and ANSI Z535.4 - Product Safety Signs and Labels. The first reference is critical to determining the severity of potential exposure and selecting personal protective equipment, and the second to the proper design of appropriate safety labels.
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is the European Community directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment which, together with the RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC, became European Law in February 2003, setting collection, recycling and recovery targets for all types of electrical goods.
The RoHS EC Directive 2002/95 EC (Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment) draws its scope from the WEEE Directive. It applies to products placed on the European Union market on or after July 1, 2006.
The official title of China RoHS is, "Management Methods for Controlling Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products Regulation." China RoHS was developed independently of Europe's RoHS directive though there is substantial overlap. Some product types covered by China RoHS are not within the scope of EU RoHS, such as automotive electronics, radar equipment and medical devices.
Clarion's "refer to manual" labels are a much-needed solution to the problem of making the warnings that appear on your product short and concise. One of the first steps in the product risk assessment process is to distill what messages should be placed on the product's safety labels and what information should go in the product's collateral material (e.g. instruction manuals, operating instructions, specification sheets). If you choose to use safety labels for the most severe or imminent hazards and then place additional safety information in an operating manual, serious consideration should be given to placing a "refer to manual" label on the product.