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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.
To reinforce, inform, warn and instruct employees, pupils and visitors in school of risks to health and
safety.
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.
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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.
Danger
Hot Water
Black text
Sign board
Corrosive substance
Biohazard
Extremely or highly
flammable substances
Harmful substances
Irritant substances
Danger
Laser beam
Oxidising substance
Non-ionising radiation
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Radioactive material
Gas cylinder
Trip hazard
Hot
Cold
Explosive atmosphere
Hot liquid
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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Sign board
wear eye
protection
wear protective
gloves
White text
lift correctly
stack correctly
use
adjustable guard
use
guard
wash hands
wear protective
footwear
wear ear
defenders
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Prohibition signs
Sign board
eat or drink
White text
pour waste down this
drain
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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
White text
Break glass in
emergency
Fire exits
Emergency exit
Emergency exit
Eye-wash station
Emergency exit
Emergency exit
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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
Fire ladder
Break seal
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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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.
D anger
H o t w a te r
A n o n l in e - s ig n . c o m p r o d u c ti o n
s ig n r e f s t 6 8 1 3 1 7 8 9 6 3 7 6
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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