These signs are also known to many as ANSI signs and OSHA signs. There are many uses and applications for safety signs. The obvious and most common uses are Caution Signs and Danger Signs.

Personal Protection Equipments (PPE) safety signs are also known as mandatory safety signs alerts workers of hazards and creates an awareness in the work area demanding the need for these PPE Safety Signs. The most important and widely used PPE safety signs are displayed below.

Prohibition Signs, Fire Equipment Signs, Mandatory Signs (PPE Safety Signs), Safe Condition Signs and Warning Signs are the major classifications of Safety Signs.
Colours & shapes help distinguish between different categories of safety signs:

Fire equipment

Location of fire fighting equipment

Mandatory

A course of action which must be taken

Prohibition

Behaviours that are prohibited

Safe Condition

Escape routes and safety equipment

Warning

Danger, warning and caution

A note about colour:
BS colours are used and matched to pantones, screen inks and vinyls as closely as possible. Colours may vary slightly between sign batches, depending on method of production.

These are approximate maximum viewing distances for safety signs. Legibility of text from distance is dependent on letter height, these distances are intended as a rough guide only.

Safety signs are availble in the following range of materials & fixings. Material codes are shown in brackets.