BS ISO 3864-1:2011 pdf download – Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs Part 1 : Design principles for safety signs and safety markings 1 Scope This part of ISO 3864 establishes the safety identification colours and design principles for safety signs and safety markings to be used in workplaces and in public areas for the purpose of accident prevention, fire protection, health hazard information and emergency evacuation. It also establishes the basic principles to be applied when developing standards containing safety signs. This part of ISO 3864 is applicable to all locations where safety issues related to people need to be addressed. However, it is not applicable to the signalling used for guiding rail, road, river, maritime and air traffic and, generally speaking, to those sectors subject to a regulation which may differ. NOTE Some countries’ statutory regulations might differ in some respect from those given in this part of ISO 3864. 2 Normative references The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. ISO 3864-3, Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs — Part 3: Design principles for graphical symbols for use in safety signs ISO 3864-4, Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs — Part 4: Colorimetric and photometric properties of safety sign materials ISO 17724:2003, Graphical symbols — Vocabulary 3 Terms and definitions For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 17724 and the following apply. 3.1 combination sign sign that combines a safety sign and one or more associated supplementary signs on the same rectangular carrier 3.2 factor of distance relationship between the height (h) of a sign and the observation distance (l), used to determine observation distances of signs z = l/h [ISO 17724:2003, 28] 3.3 fire equipment sign safety sign that indicates the location or identification of fire equipment 3.4 identifiability property of a graphical symbol which enables its elements to be perceived as the objects or shapes depicted [ISO 9186-2:2008, 3.1] 3.5 mandatory action sign safety sign that indicates that a specific course of action is to be taken 3.6 multiple sign sign that combines two or more safety signs and associated supplementary signs on the same rectangular carrier 3.7 prohibition sign safety sign that indicates that a specific...
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