Fire Safety Signs
To ensure their employees’ and the general public’s safety, health and welfare when at work, it is part of a Residents Management Company’s (RMC) legal obligation and responsibility to fit safety signs in appropriate places (should they employ staff; e.g., cleaners etc).
The health and safety law states that an employer must make the workplace safe and without risks. Safety signs are necessary to demonstrate safe working procedures and to make people aware of the potential hazards around them.
There are a variety of types of safety signs. The use of a particular type is dependent on the message that the sign holds.
Green Signs can either inform people of the location of specific safety equipment, for example, first aid equipment, where fire exits are located, etc.
Red Signs are used specifically to highlight the location of fire extinguishers and any other fire safety equipment.
Blue Circles are there to give instructions: you must do whatever is written on the sign. In flats a regular example of this would be a fire action notice.
Red Circles with a diagonal line through them demonstrate that you cannot do whatever is shown on the sign. For example, No smoking signs.
Yellow Triangles are there to make people alert with regard to hazards and to highlight that something is dangerous, for example asbestos.
Blue mandatory signs are necessary for doors that need to be kept shut for fire safety reasons, for example, fire doors.
By law, the majority of places of work now require health and safety signs.
Signs are in use to guarantee that your flat owner, employee or visitor can understand their meaning quickly, and therefore offer a “multi-lingual” safety element.
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