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Business and property owners must protect those who work for them and enter the premises from harm, including harm that could be caused by fire. With extended periods spent in workspaces and the most common risk to employees being poorly planned escape routes, having the correct fire signage is vital to ensure safety and meet UK legislation.

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Also known as Safe Condition Signs, these signs indicate emergency exits and fire evacuation assembly points and direct employees along fire escape routes. These signs are predominantly green with white text or images in the centre and come in square or rectangular form.

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The purpose of these triangular fire safety signs is to highlight a potential fire-related hazard, such as a flammable substance. These signs are bright yellow with a solid black border and a black image in the centre. These signs also sometimes appear rectangular.

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However, these signs indicate the location of fire safety and fire fighting equipment, such as fire extinguishers and fire alarm call points. They are square-shaped and found next to the equipment they depict.

A neutral shade compared to red or yellow, blue is used for these signs to not negatively impact the meaning of warning or prohibition signs.

Mandatory fire safety signs are essential to having a comprehensive and effective fire safety management system in place.

These legislations state that all workplaces must have fire safety signs to warn and instruct employees in the event of a fire incident. These signs should be used in conjunction with fire safety training.

These signs are bright yellow so that they can be very easily seen, but they also mimic natural colours that indicate danger.

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Red prohibition signs inform people of behaviour they should not engage in, as it could increase the fire risk. They are circular signs that contain no text – only a black image in the centre surrounded by a red circular outline.

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The BS EN ISO 7010 standard was drafted to create an internationally-recognised, standardised look for all fire safety signs. This was designed to avoid confusion on the meaning of different signs worldwide and improve fire safety.

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There are two critical pieces of UK health and safety legislation regarding fire safety – The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (also known as ‘The RRO’) and The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996.

All businesses are legally obligated to protect their employees’ physical and mental health and well-being from harm, including mitigating the risk of fire.

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The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 outlines the rules and requirements concerning signs, particularly related to which signs should be used and how they should be displayed:

The RRO collates all fire safety requirements into one piece of legislation, while The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 are specifically about fire safety signs.

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Coloured blue and either circular or rectangular, these fire safety signs state actions that must be carried out to comply with safety regulations and improve fire safety.

Red is the colour most commonly associated with danger, making it the logical choice to discourage potentially dangerous behaviour.