Categorised as high-risk environments due to the multitude of risks associated with heavy machinery, electrical hazards, and harmful substances typically found on warehouse sites. Employers are required to follow the Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulation 1996 to protect staff and visitors. Here at Projected Image, we have looked into the essential points in this piece of legislation, helping warehouse and health and safety managers to identify warehouse safety signage requirements they need to cover in their workplace.
What safety signs do you need in a warehouse?
According to the essential requirements outlined in the Health and Safety legislation of 1996, there are a number of safety signage types that need to be clearly displayed in a warehouse environment. Depending on the layout and operations of the site, these include:All warehouse safety signage should be treated with equal importance, it is crucial that employees and visitors understand what these safety markings mean in order to understand the instructions and cautions they provide.
From preventing injuries, to protecting warehouse equipment and vehicles and keeping stock organised, using the right warehouse safety signage is essential to the smooth running of operations and increasing workplace safety. If you’re unfamiliar with any of these safety signage types, take a look at our blog on construction site signage, which explores the meanings and significance of each safety signage category.
Warehouse Stop Signs
An essential piece of warehouse safety signage, stop and no entry signs are vital and shouldn’t be ignored. Designed to ensure all operations are performed safely, stop signs should be implemented where there is a potential obstacle or in a dangerous location, making workers avoid collisions and injuries. As well as stop signs, wayfinding signage used to direct traffic around your site can increase warehouse safety. 22 of the 1996 Health and Safety Regulation requires markers that indicate traffic routes to take the form of lines, which should be yellow or white.
Warehouse Aisle Signs
Made to keep your warehouse organised, aisle signage is utilised by many industrial spaces to help vehicles and workers navigate around the site in a safe manner. Our custom warehouse safety signs present a great solution to creating a neat, efficient and safe space. With our custom signage, you can create your own warehouse aisle signs suited to the needs of your business. We can also make recommendations to create a bespoke warehouse safety signage system.
Warehouse Floor Signs
From directing workers, to controlling warehouse vehicles and other machinery, warehouse floor signs are another crucial element to ensuring workplace safety. Our collection of warehouse safety signage offers a variety of safety markings, ensuring your site is covered with all the essential health and safety signage.
As well as the standard caution signage (made in a triangle shape indicating you’re approaching a hazard) the most common types of safety signs used on warehouse floors are wayfinding signage, directing vehicular and foot traffic safely. Zebra crossing signs are commonly used as warehouse safety markings as they are needed to guide pedestrians across and encourage forklift drivers to be alert when moving about the site.
If you are looking for a specific warehouse safety sign, our team of projection experts can pull together a bespoke safety signage solution suited to your business needs.
Whether you need signs to direct traffic across different stations, or you’re looking to create safe walkways for pedestrians, we’re dedicated to providing all of the elements needed to protect workers and increase warehouse health and safety.
Projected Warehouse Safety Signage
With lots of vehicular and foot traffic during day-to-day operations, it's no surprise that traditional safety signage and painted floor safety markings often fade rapidly. When safety markings are faded, this causes ‘sign blindness’ and safety signs can be missed, meaning they need to be replaced regularly, which can be costly.
At Projected Image, we offer a long-lasting and durable warehouse safety signage solution. Our projected signage is a great alternative to painted floor markings, with up to five years of lamp life, our powerful gobo projectors ensure high visibility safety signs that do not fade, even with heavy traffic on-site. This not only saves time repainting floors, but also saves money due to lack of business downtime and regular repairs to safety markings.
Virtual signage is also highly adaptable to changing warehouse layouts and requirements. Simply order a new gobo, and swap it into your projector to project a brand new warehouse safety sign. We stock a wide range of warehouse safety signs including forklift safety signs, zebra crossings and stop signs, all of which are HSE compliant.
Looking for something more bespoke? Our team of projection experts can create custom gobos for your projected signage, with any design, scaling and manufacturing done in-house. To improve your workplace safety, protect your staff and your profits, get in touch with our team who can help to create your ideal warehouse safety signage solution today.