Safety Signs

Course Coordinator: Asma Ahmed Al-Yamani

 Safety Signs play an important part in
communicating safety and health information to
everyone. Signs need to be provided whenever
there’s a hazard that hasn’t been fully controlled in
other ways. Make sure YOUR TEAM understands
the meaning of the signs.
Safety Signs- Course Coordinator: Asma Ahmed Al-Yamani
 A safety sign provides information
about safety or health and can be a
signboard, color, acoustic signal, or
hand signal.

Safety Signs- Course Coordinator: Asma Ahmed Al-Yamani

 The Purpose of Safety Signs in
The Workplace

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 The purpose of having safety signage in
the workplace is to identify and warn
workers who may be exposed to hazards
in the workplace.
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 Different signs
with
different colors

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Safety Signs- Course Coordinator: Asma Ahmed Al-Yamani
 Red Signs

These are Prohibition Signs.

This means you are not allowed
to do something such as:
Smoking, (as illustrated).

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 Other common Prohibition Signs are those
showing that:

There is no access for pedestrians or no access

for vehicles.

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 Red sings are also used for FIRE EQUIPMENT:
Firefighting equipment.

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 Blue signs

These are Mandatory Signs. This means that you

must do something (such as wearing ear
defenders, as illustrated).

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 Other common mandatory sign are:
Head protection must be worn.

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  Face protection must be worn

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 Yellow or amber sign

These are used to warn about hazards such as

forklift trucks (as illustrated),

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 Electricity

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 Radioactive material

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 Green Signs
These signs are for emergency escape routes (as
illustrated) and first aid provision, such as:
First Aid Posts

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 Emergency Showers

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Safety Signs- Course Coordinator: Asma Ahmed Al-Yamani
 Safety Sign
Match the words to the picture
1 No food or drink in this area
2 Muff must be worn E
3 Goggles must be worn
A
4 No access for vehicles. G
5 Drinking water point
I
6 Please do not use mobile phone in the corridor B
P
(silent mode)
7 Quit ZONE do not disturb H
C
8 Slippery floor
9 Alcohol not permitted at workplace Q
D M
10 Forklift trucks operating J
11 Don’t smoke F
12 Do not operate unless authorized
R O
13 Danger trip hazard
L K
14 Do not oil, clean or use this machine whilst in
motion N
Safety Signs- Course Coordinator: Asma Ahmed Al-Yamani