Other Safety Signs

By law, any premises must display appropriate safety signs where you have identified a significant risk, and have taken all appropriate measures to reduce it, but having a sign may help reduce it further. Your range of safety signs would include fire exits signs, location of fire equipment such as fire extinguishers, evacuation routes, hazards, and so on.

Fire Safety Signs: Know Your Colours

Safety signs are all colour-coded, and combine image and text for clarity. The main types are:

Fire Equipment Sign: Red Background With White Graphics

These signs mark where your vital fire safety equipment is held, such as fire extinguishers. They can also indicate fire alarm points or sprinkler controls.

Safe Procedure Sign: Green Background With White Graphics

These mark safe exits from buildings or the direction of fire safety equipment. The familiar running man exit sign is one of these.

Mandatory Sign: Blue Background With White Graphics

These are signs that, effectively, give orders, such as “keep fire door shut”.

Warning Sign: Yellow Triangle With Black Border And Black Graphics

These familiar signs show potential risks and hazards, such as "Danger, high voltage".

Prohibited Sign: White Background With Black Graphic In A Crossed-Through Red Circle

These signs indicate prohibited action, such as the omnipresent "No Smoking" sign!

Information: Black Text On White Background

This gives further information or advice, such as "Switch off lights"

Safety Signs: The OK Ones

Safety signs are only useful if they are visible, so the correct position for your sign is as important as their construction. Once in the right place, of course, they have to stay there. Self-adhesive vinyl sticker signs are prone to peeling in warm air, and often do not stick well to textured wall coverings. In addition, they are very tempting to gently peel off during dull telephone calls...

Rigid Plastic Safety Signs: The Best

Rigid plastic safety signs from Fire Protection Online are easy to fit, since you can fix them to your walls with sticky pads or "No Nails" style adhesive rather than with screws. However, their rigid construction also hides a clever secret: photoluminescence.

Photoluminescent Safety Signs

Photoluminescent safety signs absorb normal office fluorescent light during the working day, sufficient to make them glow in the dark for up to ten hours. Our photoluminescent safety signs are also fire-retardant, unlike self-adhesive vinyl signs.

Jalite Photoluminescent Safety Signs

Our range of safety signs is made by Jalite, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of safety signs. They are constructed with the photoluminescent layer bonded to a white reflective background, and then protected with a high gloss layer. This ensures that Fire Protection Online's safety signs are highly durable, wipe-clean and robust, with a life expectancy of up to five years. These good value safety signs can also be used both inside and outside.