HEALTH & SAFETY SIGNS
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Signpost to The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996
Why do we need these Regulations?
These Regulations bring into force the EC Safety Signs Directive (92/58/EEC) on the provision and use of safety signs at work. The purpose of the Directive is to encourage the standardisation of safety signs throughout the member states of the European Union so that safety signs, wherever they are seen, have the same meaning.
The Legislation:
• Requires employers to use a safety sign whenever there is a risk that cannot be controlled by any other means.
• Demands that all safety sign boards contain a pictogram as part of their intrinsic design features.
• Increases the number of safety symbols. Incorporates fire safety signs.
The Regulations cover various means of communicating health and safety information. These include the use of illuminated signs, hand and acoustic signals (eg fire alarms), spoken communication and the marking of pipework containing dangerous substances. These are in addition to traditional signboards such as prohibition and warning signs. Fire safety signs (ie signs for fire exits and fire-fighting equipment) are also covered.
What do the Regulations require?
They require employers to provide specific safety signs whenever there is a risk that has not been avoided or controlled by other means, eg by engineering controls and safe systems of work. Where a safety sign would not help to reduce that risk, or where the risk is not significant, there is no need to provide a sign;
They require, where necessary, the use of road traffic signs within workplaces to regulate road traffic;
They also require employers to:
maintain the safety signs which are provided by them,
explain unfamiliar signs to their employees and tell them what they need to do when they see a safety sign.
The Regulations apply to all places and activities where people are employed, but exclude signs and labels used in connection with the supply of substances, products and equipment or the transport of dangerous goods.
Do existing signs need to be changed?
In the case of fire safety signs, where employers decide that a previously acceptable sign is not of a type referred to in the Regulations they have until 24 December 1998 to replace it. All other safety signs now need to meet the requirements of the new Regulations described below.
Effect on employers
A new requirement in the Regulations is to mark pipework containing dangerous substances, for example by identifying and marking pipework at sampling and discharge points. The same symbols or pictograms need to be shown as those commonly seen on containers of dangerous substances, but using the triangular-shaped warning signs
Fire Hazard • Fly Tipping Aluminum • Graffiti signs • Disabled Road, Ramps and Cones • Information Construction • First Aid Multi Purpose • Prohibition Custom Made • Mandatory Fixings • Hotels & Catering Quality Control • Garages Protection • Floor Graphics • Security • Fire • Fire Fighting Equipment • Extinguisher IDs • Fire Prevention • Fire Action • Escape • Disabled • Photoluminescent • Disabled • Braille and Tactile • Products Access • Information • Info Signs • Visual Impact Range • First Aid • Prohibition • Smoking / Naked Lights • Access Restricted • General Machinery • Warning General • Electrical • Self Standing Signs Portrait • Mandatory Noise Control • Personal Protective Equipment • General Hotels & Catering • Catering Hotels Car Park Bar & Restaurants • Garages • Flammable Liquids • Floor Graphics • Security • Hazard • Deluxe • Hazchem Placards • Hazardous Substances Labels • Vehicle Marking • Storage and Site Marking • Road Car Park • Non Reflective Road Traffic • Reflective Temporary Traffic Warning • Regulatory Traffic Signs • Fold Up Road Signs • Fixings • Ramps, Cones & Frames • Ramps Cones Frames • Polycarbonate • Construction • Non Reflective Site Management • Roll Top Signs • Barrier Tape • Site Safety Boards • Fluted Polypropylene • Scaffold Protectors • Starter Packs • Multi Purpose • Spill Kits • Waste & Recycling• General Confined Space • Asbestos • Water Safety • Adhesive • Corporate Insert Internal External • Standard Special Signs and Custom Made Signs • Standard Special Signs • Custom Made Signs • Pipeline • Water • Steam • Gases • Acid / Alkaline • Air • Other Liquids • Electrical Services & Ventilation • Fire Warning • Fresh Water • Mineral Oils • Posters • Regulation Guidance • Health and Safety • Frame • Quality • Quality Control Signs • Quality Control Tags • Quality Control Labels • Protection • Dry Wipe Boards • Bird Deterrent • Glass Highlighting • Impact Protection • Safety Tapes • Anti Slip • Anti Graffiti • Posts • Chain Posts • Post Frames • Nylon Chains • Retractable Barriers • Mirrors and Paints • Stencils • Safety Mirrors • Paint • Labels • ID Numbers & Letters • Fire • Prohibition • Mandatory • Warning • Hazard Warning • Safe Condition
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