How To Make Safety Signage Programs Effective

In the workplace, signage is important. Without appropriate labeling and signage, employees face a number of potential hazards, while management and owners face problems and stress resulting from these hazards. Without appropriate labeling, cables are unidentified, potential safety hazards are unmarked and the contents of boxes and other storage containers are unknown. Simple warnings and instructions are missing. It’s easy to see why signage and labeling are important.

To prevent potential confusion and even safety hazards managers and business owners must find ways to make the process of labeling efficient and manageable while stressing to employees the importance of signs and labels in the workplace.

Step One: Make Creating and Managing Signing Simple and Efficient

OSHA requires that many things, particularly potential safety hazards, be appropriately labeled in the workplace. In order to comply and create a safe and orderly workplace, the individuals in charges of signage must be well informed as to regulations and how to create effective signage. This happens in several ways:

• Creating and following templates for all signage needs within a business creates consistency and makes the process go more smoothly.
• Using appropriate tools for signage creates consistency, allowing labels to be easily read and to last for a long time. The last thing you want is for labels and signage to fall off, be missing and have to be replaced.
• Partner with an experienced signage company who you can trust to be highly knowledgeable in the area of safety signage laws and guidelines.

Step Two: Understand and Communicate to Your Management and Employees the Importance of Signage.

Signage is more than just a matter of organization and convenience. In fact, OSHA and other regulatory agencies have strict policies concerning signage. It is your duty as an owner or manager to be up to date on these regulations and communicate their importance to your employees. Explaining the labeling of any hazardous materials or situation is especially important.

Hiring an outside specialist to consult and create effective signage and labels for your business is a way to streamline the process and ensure that you are getting appropriate, durable and consistent signs and labels, making your workplace even better. Give Pinnacle Sign Company’s experienced team a call to discuss all of your signage needs in the Houston, Texas area.