Safety expert supports customers' sign safety

As well as featuring more than 5000 safety signs, an extensive range of lockout solutions, posters, labels and stencils, the catalogue will offer customers information about Arco’s custom signage manufacturing service and its free workplace sign survey, which enables Arco to provide tailored expert guidance.

Under The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulation 1996, employers have a responsibility to provide adequate, current and maintained safety signs in circumstances where there is significant risk. The regulation also states that employers are required to ensure their staff are aware of and understand the meaning of individual safety signs and signals by providing training where necessary. 

Both British and European signage standards currently use colour to determine the purpose of safety signs to ensure transparency to all workers:

• Blue signs denote a mandatory instruction with a specific course of action
• Red signs can indicate a prohibited action, warn of a potential danger or provide fire safety information
• Yellow signs indicate where caution should be taken due to hazards in the environment
• Green signs indicate safe conditions such as escape route or first aid

To request a copy of the new Safety Signs and Lockout Solutions catalogue visit www.arco.co.uk/catrequest or for more information or safety signage, please visit www.arco.co.uk/signs and for lockout tagout solutions, visit www.arco.co.uk/loto.