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Fire Safety Signage

Informative Signs & Symbols

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Signs to Keep You Safe in the Workplace

Most people are familiar with the ubiquitous safety signs that bedeck buildings everywhere. It’s worth taking note of these because they’re there for your safety’s sake.

As local fire safety experts in Wiltshire and North East Somerset we have a full stock of clear, compliant fire safety signage available and the expertise to site and place appropriate signs in all sorts of environments, from hospitals, offices, and schools to restaurants, hotels and pubs.

Fire safety signage is an essential element that forms part of a fire safety package for any commercial building, prohibiting actions that might cause a fire, and steering the building’s occupants and any visitors who happen to be on site to safety if there is a fire or a fire alarm is activated.

In such an event take note of the messages conveyed by these crucial signs, which incorporate lights, words, pictograms and symbols to guide you to where fire extinguishers are located and how to operate them; what action to take; where to exit the building; where first aid is available and so much more information.

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Types of Fire Safety Signage

Here are examples of some of the main types of fire safety signage that you will see every day in your workplace or any building you visit:

Warning Signs

Indicating a nearby danger, such as a store for flammable liquid.

Prohibition Signs

Signs that instruct you not to smoke.

Mandatory Signs

Signs that bear instructions to comply with statutory requirements.

Safe Condition Signs

Signs that indicate the route to safety and assistance.

Exit Signs

To comply with Building Regulations every door has to be marked with a fire exit sign.

If you’d like to make sure that your premises are adequately covered with fire safety signage, please get in touch with our experts.

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Regulation Fire Safety Signage

Fire safety signage – in fact any health and safety signs in any sphere – are not just randomly designed. Only specified colours, designs and proportions meet the regulations and requirements of BS5499 (the British Standard that covers all safety warning signs and signals).

It therefore takes qualified, knowledgeable experts to deploy the correct, compliant fire safety signage in a building. We know what’s required where, and how it should be displayed. Some of the stipulations of the legislation pertaining to safety signage are:

  • All fire safety signs should clearly and effectively mark escape routes and exits
  • Fire doors and escape routes must be clearly marked
  • Signage must be displayed along an exit route
  • All fire safety signs should be illuminated
  • Escape route signs should feature direction arrows
  • Emergency exit signs above fire doors should direct someone through the door
  • All fire escape route signs should be in picture form
  • Braille and tactile fire safety signage is also available
  • Signage should be visible from a distance and at an appropriate height
  • All fire-fighting equipment must be clearly identified

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