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 <nick.willi...@conformance.co.uk> Sent by: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org 03/14/2002 04:16 AM Please respond to Nick Williams To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org cc: 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. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"