Noun phrase

Countable

Sign referring to a specific object, activity or situation and providing information or instruction about health or safety at work by means of a signboard, a safety colour, an illuminated sign, an acoustic signal, a verbal communication or a hand signal.

Provision of safety signsrisk assessment indicates that the employer concerned, having adopted all appropriate techniques for collective protection, and measures, methods or procedures used in the organisation of work, cannot avoid or adequately reduce risks to employees except by the provision of appropriate safety signs to warn or instruct, or both, of the nature of those risks and the measures to be taken to protect against them.

Reg. 2, 4 of The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996

Directive 92/58/EEC

The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996

Signboard, Illuminated sign, Acoustic signal, Hand signal, Verbal communication

= Segnaletica di sicurezza

= Signalisation de sécurité

= Sicherheits- und Gesundheitsschutzkennzeichnung