Health & Safety Signs

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Safety signs and signals are required where, despite putting in place all other relevant measures, a significant risk to the health and safety of employees and others remains.

Employers must provide safety signs if there is a significant risk that can't be avoided or controlled in any other way, such as through safe systems of work or engineering controls.

There is no need to provide safety signs if they don't help reduce the risk or if the risk isn't significant. This applies to all places and activities where people are employed.

Employers must, where necessary:

• Use road traffic signs in workplaces to regulate road traffic
• Display fire exits and fire exit routes clearly
• Maintain the safety signs they provide and Signs must be clear and legible, and should be used to identify actions that are prohibited (eg no access), safeguards that must be followed (eg ear protection must be worn), warning of a hazard (eg corrosive material) and to direct towards fire exits/equipment or first-aid equipment.
• Explain unfamiliar signs to their employees and tell them what they need to do when they see safety signs
• You should avoid using too many signs which may cause confusion.

At Mode Design we manufacture all signs ourselves and they adhere to the latest directive laid out by the HSE. The Regulations enact in UK law an EU Directive designed to harmonise signs across the EU so that signs across the member states will have the same meaning whichever country they are used in.

For all the latest HSE information and guidelines please click the following HSE Regulations 1996