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How To Choose A Sign Style
There are four sign styles to choose from when designing your sign: OSHA, ANSI Z535, ALERT, and CUSTOM signs. Use the guide below to help you choose which style best fits your workplace.
See How to Choose a Sign Header for more information on which header to use for your sign application.
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OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA 1910.145) requires the use of safety signs to indicate and define specific hazards that, without identification, may lead to accidental injury to workers and/or the public or to property damage.
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ANSI Z535
The ANSI Z535
Committee on Safety Signs developed a set of standards for the
design, application and use of signs, colors, and symbols intended
to identify and warn against specific hazards and for other accident
prevention purposes. The recommended format is intended to provide a
safety alert message that is clearly and rapidly understood.
Lettering is left justified, as well as upper and lower case to
enhance legibility, and internationally recognized pictograms are
used for universal comprehension.
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ALERT
As our workforce
becomes more global and diverse, visual forms of communication are
relying more and more on the use of symbols and pictograms to warn
about hazardous conditions. By using internationally recognized
pictograms, Alert signs help you promote greater and more rapid
communication of safety messages. (Alert signs do not comply with
the ANSI Z535 standard).
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CUSTOM
Custom signs
allow you to create your message without a header. Pictograms may be
added to the right side of the sign (see Alert sign style) to help
communicate warnings.
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