Safety Sign Information
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.
Confined Spaces Warning Signs
The OSHA regulation for confined space signs reads as follows:
1910.146(c)(2) "If the workplace contains permit spaces, the employer shall inform exposed employees, by posting
danger signs or by any other equally effective means, of the existence and location of and the danger posed by the permit spaces."
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Safety Signs for Electrical Enclosures
Enclosures that do not clearly show that they contain electrical devices shall be marked with a safety sign in accordance
with ANSI Z535 series, which deals with product safety signs.
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Electrical Lockout and Tagout Safety Signs
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."
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Emergency Shower Safety Signs
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."
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Escape Plan Safety Identification Signs
Around the world, Clarion is on the case for state-of-the-art standards in our industry...Recently, Clarion President
Geoffrey Peckham participated with a dozen of the world's safety sign experts in reviewing a Draft International Standard for Safety Identification - Escape
Plan Signs.
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Eyewash Station Safety Signs
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."
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Fire Extinguisher Signs
OSHA is very clear on the requirement for employers to identify the location of fire extinguishers. The rule is as follows:
OSHA: 1910 157 (c)(1) Fire Protection - Portable Fire Extinguishers "The employer shall provide portable fire extinguishers and
shall mount, locate and identify them so they are readily accessible to employees without subjecting the employees to possible injury."
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Fire Hose Signs
The OSHA regulation for fire hose signs reads as follows:
1910.158(c)(1) - Reels and cabinets "Where reels or cabinets are provided to contain fire hose, the employer
shall assure that they are designed to facilitate prompt use of hose valves, the hose, and other equipment at the time of a fire or other emergency."
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First Aid and Emergency Equipment Signs
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."
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Forklift Safety and Pedestrian Path Marking Signage
Forklift traffic accidents are a major concern for many companies, many facilities, many industries. Proper training that
is permanently reinforced by safety signs is key to reducing risk in this area. Oftentimes sign clutter is the order (disorder) of the day. Now is the
time to replace the disorganized, hodge-podge appearance of your forklift safety rules with an easy-to-understand Clarion composite sign that clearly
designates the rules of the road for forklifts in your plant. Your new Clarion sign will combine the in-plant traffic signs into a single sign, logically
arranged sign that will provide a simple, uncluttered means to communicate traffic rules to all forklift operators.
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Material Safety Data Sheets or MSDS Signs
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.)"
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Pathway Marking Signs
OSHA says the following about marking aisles and passageways:
1910.22(b)(2) "Permanent aisles and passageways shall be appropriately marked."
1910.22(d)(1) "In every building or other structure, or part thereof, used for mercantile, business, industrial, or
storage purposes, the loads approved by the building official shall be marked on plates of approved design which shall be supplied and securily
affixed by the owner of the building, or his duty authorized agent, in a conspicuous place in each space to which they relate."
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PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) Signs
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.
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