Safety Device & Safety Sign

Department of Industrial & Production Engineering

Shahjalal University Of Science & Technology, Sylhet
 Safety

- Safety means to protect everyone against failure, breakage, or accident.

- Safety is completely the responsibility of the mangers and the business owners to make sure that
their employees are working in safe environment or not.
- The management should make sure that they keep on motivating and boosting the employees to
make them active in the working process.
And Safety is now one of the biggest issues for everywhere.

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Safety Device

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 Safety Device

A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt or burglar alarm that
reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident or break in.

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 Safety Devices (In Brief)

Safety is very critical when dealing with industrial equipment. Different industrial processes mandate
that a different set of safety equipment be used.
Most of the industrial processes are:
1. Safety Shoes, 2. Safety Helmet, 3. Fall Protection Equipment,
4. Safety Spectacles, 5. Fire Protection Equipment, 6. Fire Ball Extinguisher,
7. Life Jackets, 8. Smoke Detectors, 9. Safety Gloves.

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 Safety Shoe

- A pair of safety shoes (also known as safety

boots) is personal protective equipment (PPE)
for foot protection at workplaces.
- It prevents from getting foot injuries due to
slippery surface, heavy falling or rolling
objects, sharp piercing edges, pinch points,
rotary machinery, hot objects, loops of ropes
under tension, splinters, electricity, chemicals
or even bad weather etc.

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 Safety Helmet

- A safety helmet is a type of helmet

predominantly used in workplace environments
such as industrial or construction sites to protect
the head from injury due to falling objects, impact
with other objects, debris, rain, and electric shock.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Anchorage)

- A secure point of attachment for lifeline or

lanyard.
- A secure means of attachment to check if the
personal fall arrest system is connected.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Body Harness)

- Body harness means straps, which may be

secured about the worker in a manner that will
distribute the fall arrest forces over at least the
thighs, pelvis, waist, chest and shoulders with
means for attaching it to other components of a
personal fall arrest system.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Carabiner)

- A link with a gate that is normally closed or

that automatically closes, and is used to
connect components of a personal fall
protection system.
- A device which is used to couple (connect)
parts of the personal fall arrest system and
positioning device systems.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Fall Restraint System)

- A work positioning system to prevent a worker

from falling from a work position, or a travel
restriction system such as guardrails or a personal
fall protection system to prevent a worker from
traveling to an edge from which the worker could
fall.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Full Body Harness)

- A body support device consisting of connected

straps designed to distribute a fall arresting force
over at least the thigh, shoulders and pelvis, with
provision for attaching a lanyard, lifeline or other
components.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Horizontal Lifeline System)

- A system composed of a synthetic or wire rope

installed horizontally between two anchors, to
which a worker attaches a personal fall protection
system.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Lifeline)

- A synthetic or wire rope, rigged from one or

more anchors, to which a worker’s lanyard or
other part of a personal fall protection system is
attached.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Rope Grab)

- A deceleration device which travels on a lifeline

and automatically, by friction, engages the lifeline
and locks so as to arrest the fall of an employee.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Lanyard)

- A deceleration device containing a drum-wound

line, which can be slowly extracted from, or
retracted onto, the drum under slight tension
during normal worker movement, and which,
after onset of a fall, automatically locks the drum
and arrests the fall.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Shock Absorber)

- A device intended to limit the deceleration

forces exerted on a worker during fall arrest.

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 Fall protection Equipment (Snap Hooks)

- A connector comprised of a hook-shaped

member with a normally closed keeper, or similar
arrangement, which may be opened to permit the
hook to receive an object and, when released,
automatically closes to retain the object.

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 Safety Spectacles

- Safety glasses are a part of Personal Protective

Equipment (PPE) that are worn by the workers
around their eyes for protection.
- Safety glasses act as a shield to protect the eyes
from any type of foreign debris that may cause
irritation or injury.

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 Fire Protection Equipment

- Fire protection equipment is equipment

designed to extinguish fires or protect the user
from fire.
- It may be used by trained fire fighters,
untrained users at the scene of a fire, or built
into a building's infrastructure (such as a
sprinkler system).

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 Fire Ball Extinguisher

- A Fire ball extinguisher is an active fire

protection device used to extinguish or
control fires, often in emergency situations.
- The Fire ball was designed to extinguish fires
in similar fashion to a sprinkler systems.
- Therefore, to avoid false alarms, the ball will
be activated only when it comes into contact
with naked flames, avoiding false activation
as a result of heat, pressure or falling from its
cradle.
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 Life Jacket

- Life Jacket is also called as safety vest.

- A safety vest is an article of personal protective
equipment that's designed to have high
visibility and reflectivity.

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 Smoke Detectors

- Smoke Detector is a sensor that detects smoke

as a primary indication of fire.
- It provides a signal to a fire alarm system in a
large building, or produces an audible and
visual signal locally in a room or a home.
- There are two main types of smoke detectors:
photoelectric and ionization.

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 Safety Gloves

- It is known as work gloves or, protective gloves.

- Work gloves are meant to save the user's hands and
fingers from unnecessary wounds such as cuts,
blisters, splinters, skin punctures or heat and
chemical burns.
- Gloves vary in type depending on the work
environment.
- Work Gloves can be made of cloth, leather, wool,
latex, rubber, nitrile rubber, vinyl, neoprene or
metal.
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Safety Sign

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 Safety Sign

A safety and/or health sign is defined as “information or instruction about health and safety at
work on a signboard, a color, an illuminated sign or acoustic signal, a verbal communication or
hand signal.”

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 Safety Sign Classification

There are three primary hazard classifications: Danger, Warning, and Caution. OSHA also requires
biological hazards to be specifically labeled.
Danger signs – Indicate immediate danger and alert personnel. OSHA specifies that red, black and
white colors are to be used for danger signs.
Caution signs – Warn against potential hazards or caution against unsafe practices. OSHA specifies
that caution signs must have a yellow background and black panel with yellow letters. All letters
used against the yellow background must be black.
Safety instruction signs –OSHA specifies that safety instruction signs must have a white
background, green panel and white letters. Any letters used on the white background must be
black.
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 Primary Hazard Classification (Danger)

- Danger signs indicate an immediate hazard

which, if not avoided, will result in death or
serious injury.
- The heading “DANGER” is printed in white
letters on a red background and is preceded by
the safety alert symbol (an equilateral triangle
surrounding an exclamation mark).
- The message should be printed in black or red
letters on a white background, or white letters
on a black background.
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 Primary Hazard Classification (Warning)

- Warning signs represent a hazard level

between caution and danger.
- “Warning” indicates a hazardous situation
which, if not avoided, could result in death or
serious injury.
- The heading “WARNING” (preceded by the
safety alert symbol) is written in black on an
orange background.

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 Primary Hazard Classification (Caution)

- A caution sign indicates a potentially

hazardous situation.
- Caution signs are used in areas where
potential injury or equipment damage is
possible, or to caution against unsafe practices.
- The heading “CAUTION” is written in black
letters on a yellow background and is
preceded by the safety alert symbol.
- The message and safety symbols in the body
of the sign are printed in black.
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 Primary Hazard Classification (Biological Hazard)

- The biological hazard symbol design must

conform to the design as “BIOHAZARD” sign
and contain the word “Biohazard” or
“Biological Hazard.”
- The biohazard symbol can be black,
fluorescent orange, or orange-red color.
- A biohazard can also be indicated on a danger
or warning sign and may include the safety
alert symbol.

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 Secondary Hazard Classification (Notice)

- The heading “NOTICE” should be in white

italic letters on a blue background.
- Notice signs should never include the safety
alert symbol.
- The body of the sign is white, and the message
is in blue or black lettering on a white
background, or white lettering on a black
background.
- Safety symbols can be printed in either blue or
black.
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 Safety Color Code (Ansi, OSHA)
COLOR MEANING APPLICATION

Danger Safety cans and signs.

Red Emergency stop bar or button on machinery. Identification of fire
Stop
equipment.

Labels and containers for blood and infectious waste. (Warning labels
Fluorescent Orange, Orange-Red Biosafety must be fluorescent orange or orange-red with the biosafety symbol in
a contrasting color.)

Tripping, falling and striking hazards. “Flammable, Keep Fire Away”

Yellow Caution labels on cabinets. Safety cans and containers for explosives, corrosives
or unstable materials.

Parts of machinery or energized equipment that may cut, crush or

Orange Warning
otherwise injure. Inside of transmission guards for pulleys, gears, etc.

Location of first aid equipment. Location of safety equipment,

Green Safety
respirators, safety showers, etc.

Signs and bulletin boards. Specific railroad warnings against starting,

Blue Information
using or moving equipment being repaired.

Black, White, Yellow or

Combination of Black with Boundaries Traffic or housekeeping markings. Stairways, directions and borders.
White or Yellow

Magenta or Purple on Yellow Radiation Caution X-ray, alpha, beta, gamma, neutron and proton radiation.

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Safety Color Code (Ansi)

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Sign Classification (Osha vs. Ansi)

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 Safety Symbols

- Signs and labels may include safety symbols,

- It is also often called as Pictograms, Pictorals, or Gliphs.
- Safety symbols can portray required actions, consequences, explicit direction, or the effects of
interaction with certain chemicals, machines, and other hazards.
- Signs and labels may include more than one pictorial to show a sequence of events for one hazard.
- Safety symbols should be consistent, readable, and easily understood.
- It usually consist of a black image on a white background.

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 Safety Symbols

Hazard Alerting
- Using this surround shape to highlight a
hazardous condition.
- The symbol drawn within a black equilateral
triangle and can include a yellow background.

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 Safety Symbols

Mandatory Action
- This type of symbol conveys actions that must
be taken to avoid hazards.
- This symbol consists of a white image within a
solid blue or black circle.

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 Safety Symbols

Prohibition
- For actions that should not be taken, this
surround shape is required.
- It consists of a red or black circle with a
diagonal slash at 45° from the upper-left to the
lower-right.

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 Safety Symbols

Information
- The square (or rectangular) surround shape is
typically used to convey equipment location,
places of exit, and permitted actions.

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