FAQ
Safety signs must be used whenever a hazard or danger can not be avoided adequately or reduced in another way. Before installing safety signs an employer ...
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:35 PM
The Safety Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 (Chapter 1 of Part 7: Safety Signs at Places of Work) apply to safety signs.
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:36 PM
A safety sign provides information about safety or health and can be a signboard, colour, acoustic signal, verbal communication, or hand signal.
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:36 PM
A signboard is a sign that provides information or instruction using a combination of shape, colour and symbols but excludes information in writing.
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:36 PM
Safety signboards should not contain text. This is because the symbols or pictograms on a signboard are intended to be understood, independently of the lan...
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:36 PM
Employers must provide information to employees on the meaning and requirements of any signs used in the workplace, especially where text on supplementary s...
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:37 PM
Safety signboards put in place after 1 November 2007 should not contain text. Text may be included on a supplementary signboard provided that it does not a...
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:37 PM
A supplementary signboard (often with text) is used to give clarity to a signboard. A signboard and supplementary signboard can be located on one "car...
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:37 PM
Employers must provide information to employees on the meaning and requirements of any signs used in the workplace, especially where text on supplementary s...
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:38 PM
Where a signboard is already in place before 1 November 2007 and it meets all the requirements of Part 7 and Schedule 9 to the General Application Regulati...
Fri, 2 Jun, 2017 at 2:38 PM