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E232

Common Safety Signs


1.

Introduction

CLEAPSS frequently receives requests for details of suppliers of commonly-used safety signs and
chemical hazard symbols for education purposes, to reinforce control measures during practical sessions
and around the school in general. As a service to members, we have produced our own versions of these
signs and symbols and collected them together in the form of this electronic publication. The legal
background for safety signs can be found in Appendix 1.

Uses of these signs


Teachers and technicians can copy, paste and resize the signs from this document and insert them into a
document, label or poster. It is envisaged that they can be put to a number of uses as follows.

To reinforce, inform, warn and instruct employees, pupils and visitors in school of risks to health and
safety.

Exhibiting large posters to place around the room.

In the text of any worksheets, but there should be verbal and written warnings as well.

This document does not feature a complete list of designs. You will see that some designs and texts do
vary from one commercial supplier to another, eg, some heads have hair and some are bald. There is no
reason why new designs (eg, mobile phones are prohibited ) could not be made by pupils so long as some
basic design criteria are followed. Text can also be added in the same style and examples can be found
online.

A note on chemical hazard pictograms


Chemical hazard pictograms, which appear on containers for chemicals, have either the pictograms from
the new EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulations from the Global Harmonised System or
the pictograms from the CHIP Regulations. These do not appear in this document. The GHS chemical
pictograms appear in E236.

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Warning signs

These signs must be triangular in shape. They must have black ink on a yellow background and the yellow
background must cover more than 50% of the sign.
They could be used on cupboards, on electrical equipment, in text containing
hazardous chemicals or apparatus. The text, if used, should be precise and use
only a few word, in black type on a yellow background.
To create your own sign, the empty sign and the sign board below can be copied
and pasted into both Word or PowerPoint. The objects can be adjusted into the
correct positions, grouped together and the picture saved, like the one on the right.

Useful warning signs

Danger
Hot Water

Right click the board


below, copy, paste in
place and add text.

Black text

Warning (add a sign)

Sign board

Corrosive substance

Risk of electric shock

Biohazard

Extremely or highly
flammable substances

Harmful substances

Irritant substances

Danger

Laser beam

Oxidising substance

Non-ionising radiation

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Radioactive material

Toxic / Very Toxic


substance

Gas cylinder

Trip hazard

Hot

Cold

Strong magnetic field

Explosive atmosphere

Hot liquid

High noise levels

Slippery surface

Explosive material

Mandatory signs

These signs must be obeyed at all times. Therefore, if a Wear Eye Protection sign is displayed in a
room, everyone present must wear such equipment all the time that they are present. Obviously these
signs cannot be used casually! It may sometimes be helpful, however, to use a temporary mandatory
sign, provided that it is removed immediately it ceases to apply. For instance, the you must wear eye
protection sign can be placed on the board at the beginning of a practical session when hazardous
chemicals are being used.
These signs must be round in shape. They must consist of a white pictogram on a
blue background and the blue background must cover more than 50% of the sign.
The writing (if required) should be white text on a blue background.
To create your own sign, the empty sign and the sign board overleaf can be copied
and pasted into both Word or PowerPoint. The objects can be adjusted into the
correct positions, grouped together and the picture saved, like the one on the right.

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Useful mandatory signs


You MUST
do this (general sign
with white text below on
blue background below)

Sign board

wear eye
protection

wear protective
gloves

Right click the board


below, copy, paste in
place and add text.

White text

lift correctly

stack correctly

use
adjustable guard

use
guard

wash hands

wear face mask

wear protective
footwear

keep this area litter


free

wear a lab coat

wear ear
defenders

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Prohibition signs

This activity is not allowed on the premises.


These signs must be round in shape. They must be a black pictogram on a white background, red edging
and a diagonal red line. The red part must cover at least 35% of the sign. The text (if required) should be a
white text on a red background.
To create your own sign, the empty sign and the sign board below can be copied and pasted into both
Word or PowerPoint. The objects can be adjusted into the correct positions, grouped together and the
picture saved.

You MUST NOT


exit this way
(and basic sign)

Sign board

have naked flames

eat or drink

Right click the board


below, copy, paste in
place and add text.

White text
pour waste down this
drain

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put water on a fire

drink water from


this tap

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Evacuation route, location of safety equipment or safety


facility, or safety action signs escape

This signs must rectangular or square shaped. There should be a white pictogram on a green background
and the green part must cover at least 50% of the sign. The text (if required) should be white text on a
green background.
The sign and the sign board below are copied and pasted into PowerPoint. The objects can be adjusted
into the correct positions, grouped together and the picture saved. The arrows can be rotated in the
PowerPoint file.
Customise

Sign board

Electrical cut off

Gas cut off

Right click the board


below, copy, paste in
place and add text.

White text

Break glass in
emergency

Fire exits

Emergency exit

Emergency exit

First Aid point

Eye-wash station

Emergency exit

Emergency exit

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Fire equipment signs

This signs must rectangular or square shaped. There should be a white pictogram on a red background
and the red part must cover at least 50% of the sign. The text (if required) should be white text on a red
background.
To create your own sign, the empty sign and the sign board below can be copied and pasted into both
Word or PowerPoint. The objects can adjusted into the correct positions, grouped together and the picture
saved.

Customise

Sign board.

Fire phone

Fire alarm

Fire extinguisher

Hose

This way for fire


fighting equipment

This way for fire


fighting equipment

Fire ladder

Break seal

Right click the board


below, copy, paste in
place and add text.

White text

Fire blanket

F ir e
b la n k e t
This way for fire
fighting equipment

Much of the detail of what the fire extinguisher contains and which fires it is designed to work with can be
found on the extinguisher and the holder as supplied.

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Online sites for making and buying labels

There are many online sites from which you can buy safety signs and labels.
This sign was generated using the site www.online-sign.com/index.php. Signs can be
printed directly onto A4 paper or card even to A3. The file can be saved as a PDF file,
imported into drawing software such as Corel Draw, resized and exported in different file
formats.

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Appendix 1 Legal references


The legislation behind the warning, prohibition, mandatory and emergency action signs can be found in the
Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1, which enacts EU Council Directive 92/58/EEC.
The Guidance on these regulations can be found in Safety Signs and Signals, L64, Second edition 2009,
which can be downloaded free of charge2. Another source of information can be found in an International
Standard3. This is a very expensive booklet, which may be obtained from libraries that subscribe to British
Standards.
The Regulations require that signs are to be used where risks to health and safety have not been
controlled (avoided) by other means. Therefore, signs cannot be a substitute for other methods of
ensuring safety, eg, discussing safe methods with pupils, telling them when to wear eye
protection, including safety information on work sheets, etc. Equally, if the risks from particular
hazards can be controlled by other means, then signs are not necessary. It is also necessary not to have
too many signs.
Fire safety signs must be displayed and must conform to the standard designs.
The Regulations above do not apply to signs on packages or containers; these are governed by other
regulations. Chemical labelling pictograms for the labelling of hazardous chemicals are defined in
Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures
(CLP Regulation). These are based on advice from the United Nations 4.

Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 SI 1996/341, The Stationery Office 1996
ISBN 978 0 11 054093 1 (as amended).

www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/l64.pdf

BS ISO 7010:2011.

http://live.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/pictograms.html

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