A Timeline of Safety Sign Best Practices

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Hot surface.
Hazardous Hazardous
Hazardous Hazardous
voltage.
Hazardous Do not touch.
voltage. voltage.
Accident voltage. area.
Contact will cause
WARNING
Contact will cause Contact will cause
electric shock or burn. electric shock or burn.
electric shock or burn.
Will cause Authorized
Prevention Superficie caliente.
Follow lockout procedure
Follow lockout procedure Follow lockout procedure before servicing this severe injury personnel Forklift Traffic
before servicing this before servicing this equipment.
ONLY. No tocar.
equipment. equipment.
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Loud noise and Loud noise and Loud noise and flying

DANGER flying debris.

Ear and eye
flying debris.
Ear and eye
debris hazards.
Ear and eye
protection protection protection required
required beyond required beyond beyond this point.
this point. this point.
Egress
Safety and Fire
Pathmarking
Equipment Emergency Fire STAIRWAY A
Low Shower Extinguisher
Low Low Location FLOOR

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clearance.
clearance. clearance. Watch your
Watch your head. Watch your head. head.
No re-entry
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THINK To safely shut down boiler:

To safely shut down boiler: To safely shut down boiler:
Company Restricted Area
SAFETY
1. Turn switch to OFF position.
1. Turn switch to OFF position. 1. Turn switch to OFF position.
2. Bleed air from valve 1. 2. Bleed air from valve 1.
2. Bleed air from valve 1. Do NOT enter.
3. Make sure pressure gauge reads “O”.
4. Close valve 1.
3. Make sure pressure gauge reads “O”.
4. Close valve 1.
3. Make sure pressure gauge reads “O”.
4. Close valve 1. Policy Authorized
personnel
ONLY.
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Do NOT Do NOT Do NOT RIDE RULES

enter. enter. enter. Beyond this point: SIZE AND CORRECT RIDE EXIT

Authorized Authorized Authorized No personal

WEIGHT LIMITS RIDE POSITION INSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONS

personnel personnel personnel beverage or food. 42”

min.
Only ONE tube to enter slide flume at a time.
NEVER form chains.

ONLY.
Riders must WAIT for attendant’s start signal
before starting slide.

ONLY. ONLY. No jewelry. 400

lbs.
max. / tube
Or Riders must stay on the tubes during the ride.
If you accidentally fall from the tube, continue

Instructional
down the slide without it and exit normally. At the end of the slide, obey all instructions by
splash pool attendant and EXIT QUICKLY, taking
ONLY ride tubes in a seated position, facing forward. DO NOT run, dive, stand, kneel, rotate or stop in
1 or 2 person ride your tube with you.
the slide.
Minimum height 42” (1.07m) Keep arms and hands inside the slide at all times. No swimming in the shutdown lane or splash pool.

No glass. Maximum weight 400 lbs. (180 kg) per tube No flotation devices in the shutdown lane.

and
48”
Wash hands at
min.

Only ONE rider to enter slide flume at a time.

Single riders ONLY. NEVER form chains.

handwash station. 300

lbs. ONLY ride slide feet first lying on your back with
Riders must WAIT for attendant’s start signal
before starting slide.

2004
max.

2006-2012 2005-2016
your legs firmly crossed at the ankles and arms At the end of the slide, obey all instructions by

Custom-Tailored
folded across your chest (to prevent your elbows DO NOT run, dive, stand, kneel, rotate or stop in

1914 1941 1959 1968 1971 1972 1991 1998 2002

splash pool attendant and EXIT QUICKLY.

Wear hairnet 1 person ride

Maximum weight 300 lbs. (136 kg)
from contacting the flume). the slide.
No swimming in the splash pool.
DO NOT uncross your legs or attempt to sit up
and beard net. Minimum height 48” (1.22m) until you come to a stop in the pool.

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Universal Safety ASA Z35.1 ASA Z35.1 USASI Z35.1 OSHA ANSI Z35.1 ANSI Z535.2 ANSI Z535.2 ANSI Z535.2 ISO 3864 ANSI Z535.2 NFPA / ISO
Standards Regulations

1914 Rules Lead to a New Standard in 1941
Since the early 1900s, signs have been used to communicate safety messages to workers to help prevent accidents. In 1914,
the Worker’s Compensation Bureau printed a comprehensive booklet on safety practices – the first published best practice
guide for safety signs. The Bureau advocated the use of DANGER safety signs in combination with arrow signs that pointed
to potential hazards. Between 1920 and 1940, various safety pamphlets and articles were published that encouraged the
use of safety signs to communicate hazards. Then, in the late 1930s, a committee was formed by industry to write a national
standard for safety signs. In 1941, ASA Z35.1 Specifications for Industrial Accident Prevention Signs was published. For the next
57 years this standard governed U.S. safety sign design.
OSHA Adopts the 1941-era Design Rules
In 1971, OSHA cited the 1967 version of the ASA Z35.1 standard as the basis for their regulations wherever safety signs were
required.* Then, beginning in the 1980s, new safety sign technology started to be developed. Graphical symbols were becoming
recognized for their ability to communicate quickly and across language barriers. Risk and hazard analysis methodologies were
developed to reduce risk in both public areas and workplaces. Global trade was increasing. And U.S. court precedents set a new
legal framework for liability that hinged on the “duty to warn” and “inadequate warnings.” In 1985, the ANSI Z535 committee was
formed to rewrite the Z35.1 standard to incorporate the latest safety communication best practices that would give users the
ability to meet the new legal bar for providing “adequate” warnings.
*Note: Clarion led OSHA to change its safety sign regulations in 2013. OSHA standards now allow organizations to use the latest ANSI Z535 standards’ formats
instead of the 1967 Z35.1 formats.
ANSI and ISO Define New Best Practices
In 1991, the ANSI Z535 standards were approved for publication, ushering in the modern age of U.S. safety sign design. These
standards established a three-tier, color-coded system of hazard severity recognition for safety signs, labels and tags. A new
symbol standard used ISO methodologies for comprehension testing and encouraged the use of symbols and pictograms to
more effectively communicate safety. In 1998, the ANSI Z535.2 safety sign standard and Z535.5 safety tag standard began
phasing in use of the newer, content-rich ANSI Z535.4 product safety label formats. By the 2002 ANSI Z535 revision, all three
standards fully adopted the use of the newer formats and the old 1941-era OSHA-style formats were discarded. The 2007
revision of the ANSI Z535 standards then realized a decade’s worth of international harmonization efforts by incorporating
ISO safety sign design principles. Another advancement in standards harmonization occurred in 2006 when NFPA replaced
many of its fire and emergency safety symbols with the official ISO symbols having the same meanings.
Clarion Best Practice ANSI/ISO/NFPA Sign Systems
Implementing state-of-the-art risk communication in your workplace is about selecting safety signs, labels and tags that
comply with the latest ANSI, ISO and NFPA best practice standards. It is essential to understand that each sign, label,
tag and marking should be designed to be part of an overall “system” of safety communication meant to reduce risk and
promote safe work behaviors. Consistent use of the latest standards-based design principles for symbols, color-coding,
formatting and message content is crucial to achieving effective risk reduction.