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A bit of advice please. Do Fire Action Notices have to be blue and white as with the traditional type. My current workplace like to do things 'differently' and we currently have a fire evacuation procedure (1/4 page) combined with a fire action notice for the other 3/4 page but I am struggling to find this an acceptable document. Part of the reason I say this is that its titled Fire Evacuation Procedure and though its tells you what to do, its not in the obvious mandatory colours that people may automatically look for. I need to speak to my boss about this and a few other recommendations but don't want to go in with tunnel vision.....
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The whole point of standardisation (in this case graphical symbols) is so they are readily and easily understood
If you chose to use in-house design new starters, visitors and contractors would be at a disadvantage and similarly when your employees travel elsewhere they would not see consistency in signage The UK Health & Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations references BS EN ISO 7010 which iincludes the standard blue mandatory, yellow hazard etc. http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l64.htm
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The whole point of standardisation (in this case graphical symbols) is so they are readily and easily understood
If you chose to use in-house design new starters, visitors and contractors would be at a disadvantage and similarly when your employees travel elsewhere they would not see consistency in signage The UK Health & Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations references BS EN ISO 7010 which iincludes the standard blue mandatory, yellow hazard etc. http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l64.htm
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Fire action notices are covered by two main pieces of legislation there is the Regulatory Fire Safety Order which helps us determine placing through risk assessment and the Safety, Signs and Signals regs which is where size, colours content comes in. The reason for the colours is the within that second piece of legislation it’s about what the sign needs people to do so the blue is following instructions, acting in a certain way, mandatory actions required, the red is do not do, do not use the lift, and the green indicates safe condition, leave by your nearest exit. So this is where you will find your back up on colours and size. It also give guidance about wording, pictograms effective placing and size. Basically if your organisation expect everyone to read chapter and verse to know what to do in a blind panic this is not going to be effective use of safety signage. Get your boss to think about how their own brain works in an evacuation and if they need to get out how will they read this then use the legislation and guidance to back you up. Hope this helps.
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The fire action notice doesn't just need to be blue - its main purpose is to make sure that anyone working in or visiting your building knows what to do if they discover a fire or if they need to evacuate the building. So you might want to include telephone/conastct numbers, details of assembly points, not to use lifts etc. There are lots of various designs available to choose from that should be able to convey the message(s) you are looking for. As others have referred to the main thing to follow when setting out the design/content are the correct use of font, symbols and colours to ensure maximum comprehension levels. if you are able to stick a photo up of the one you are copncerned about it might make it a bit easier to advise?
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Nice one Kmason83. :) Another important note to add to the above comments is that visitors, newly contracted staff and people who are autistic and dyslexic expect to see recognisable and repeated signage (especially on long corridors or external evacuation routes). I have visited several places over the years where I have got lost, simply because signage has been missing, now in a fire with thick smoke this could be fatal. I am dyslexic and autistic (it is more common than some would believe).
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