What is it?

The Safety Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 (Chapter 1 of Part 7: Safety Signs at Places of Work) provides the guidelines for the legal requirements that applies whenever a hazard or danger cannot be avoided adequately or reduced in another way in a work place.

 

What is a signboard?

A signboard is a sign that provides information or instruction using a combination of shape, colour and symbols but excludes information in writing.

 

Why must safety signboards not contain text?

This is because the symbols or pictograms on a signboard are intended to be understood, independently of the language ability of the worker viewing it.

• Red for prohibition

• Yellow for caution

• Green for positive action

• Blue for mandatory actions

• O Discs for prohibitions and instructions

• Δ Triangles for warnings

• □ Squares and rectangles for emergency and information signs