Facility safety signs play a vital role in keeping your workers, tenants, the general public and others safe from harm.
Legally proper warnings today go far beyond the old "Danger" style OSHA safety signs many of us are familiar with. Today's safety signs include symbols, translations, code-compliant colors and details about how to avoid a hazard.
How clearly a safety sign communicates its message is linked in critical ways to its effectiveness. More than that, each sign should be part of an overall system of safety, a program to keep workers in your factory, plant and office building safe. Learn more about safety signs by choosing a topic below.
The OSHA regulation for confined space signs reads as follows:
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The OSHA lockout standard is extensive, and rightly so as thousands of workers are killed or severely injured each year because lockout procedures were not followed. Below are key quotations from OSHA's lockout regulations: 1910.147(c)(2)(i) "If an energy isolating device is not capable of being locked out, the employer's energy control program under paragraph (c)(1) of this section shall utilize the need to show tags here too."
1910.151 C "Where the eyes or body of any person may be exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body shall be provided within the work area for immediate emergency use."
OSHA is very clear on the requirement for employers to identify the location of fire extinguishers. Their rule is as follows:
1910.158(c)(1)
From first-aid stations and stretchers to eyewash stations and AED devices, Clarion's signs assist in protecting millions of people every day. As the OSHA citation shown below makes clear, adequate first aid supplies must be readily available. Marking their location with highly visible, symbol-based signs, is a perfect way of making sure OSHA views your first aid supplies as "readily available."
1910.1200(g)(8) "The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required material safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access, microfiche, and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the material safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)"
OSHA says the following about marking aisles and passageways:
The long and the short of it is that employers are required to determine if PPE should be used to protect their workers. If PPE is to be used, a PPE program should be implemented. This program should address the hazards present; the selection, maintenance, and use of PPE; the training of employees; and monitoring of the program to ensure its ongoing effectiveness. Clarion's safety signs are an integral part of your PPE program, acting as a visual reminder to reinforce training and compliance with company safety policies regarding the wearing of personal protective equipment.