1 Scope
This part of GB/T 2893 establishes the safety identification colours and design principles for safety signs 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 is applicable to workplaces and all locations and all sectors where safety-related questions may be posed. 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.
2 Normative Reference
The following normative documents contain provision which, through reference in this part of GB/T 2893, constitute provisions of this part. For dated reference, subsequent amendments (excluding corrected content) to, or revisions of, any of these publications do not apply. However, all parties coming to an agreement according to this part are encouraged to study whether the latest editions of these documents are applicable. For undated references, the latest edition of the normative document referred to applies.
Contents
1 Scope
2 Normative Reference
3 Terms and Definitions
4 Purpose of Safety Colours and Safety Signs
5 General Meaning of Geometric Shapes, Safety Colours and Contrast Colours
6 Process for Standardization and Design Principles to be Used for the Development of Safety Signs
7 Layout of Safety Signs
8 Layout of Supplementary, Combination and Multiple Signs
9 Layout of Safety Marking
10 Relationship between Dimensions of Safety Signs and Distance of Observation
11 Colorimetric and Photometric Properties of Safety Colours and Contrast Colours
Appendix A (Informative) References from Colour Order Systems for Safety Colours
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