Nick:
ANSI Z535 is a series of five standards dealing with safety signs
and colors. Three of these five are the ones most applicable to us in the
compliance world. ANSI Z535.3 is the standard covering various hazard
alerting symbols and is the one, I believe, you're needing. ANSI Z535.1
covers specifications for the color coding such as Safety Red and Safety
Orange, etc. ANSI Z535.4 covers format for hazard markings/labels, etc.
In our product line of commercial food equipment (saws, choppers,
mixers, etc.), we use Z535.4 for the basic design for cautionary product
markings, Z535.3 to select the closest-fitting symbol for the pictogram
and Z535.1 for the background color of the signal word panel (Caution,
Warning, etc.).
These standards were last revised in 1997, I believe.
Richard I. Pittenger
Agency Approval Engineer
Hobart Corporation
Troy, Ohio 45374
http://www.hobartcorp.com
Nick Williams <[email protected]>
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03/14/2002 04:16 AM
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Subject: ANSI warning symbols
I'm trying to track down the number of the ANSI standard which
defines mechanical (and other) hazard warning symbols (e.g. "guards
must be in place", "trap point" etc). I've found some information on
the web on ANSI Z535.4 but it's not clear if this standard covers the
actual symbols or just the context in which they are to be used
(background colours, use of the words 'Caution', 'Warning', etc.).
Any help in this direction would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Nick.
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