The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has

very particular rules regarding everything health and safety at work. This covers everything

from protective equipment to lockout tagout procedures to the signage used to warn or alert

employees about health and safety hazards. And they do this in an effort to maintain safe work

environments all across the country.

And we at PF Safety find one of the most overlooked parts of a safety and health plan is the

signage and visuals. Improperly designed, created, or positioned signs can lead to huge fines in

the event of an OSHA compliance audit. These audits are truly all inclusive, and signs are one of

the first things the auditors will notice.

For this reason, you need to ensure all of your current signs are up to date as per any new OSHA

regulations, and that any signage you buy going forward comes from an occupational safety and

health expert. Because OSHA will be reviewing your signs, measuring the typeset, reviewing the

verbiage, and ensuring the right signs match the right situations.

If you have any questions about your current signage, it might be a good time for a

comprehensive third party safety audit. During the audit, a team of qualified third party

occupational safety and health auditors will review everything as if they were with OSHA, and

help you come up with a plan to put in place to get your procedures up to code. This will include

a complete review of your safety signage.

If you have any questions about safety signs, please contact us. If you have anything to add about

the importance of compliant signs, please leave a comment.