Fire and Safety Signs

 

 Requirement

The Fire Safety Order has a specific requirement for escape routes and exits to be indicated by signs. 

The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 require signs for several purposes the main ones being to warn workers of the risks to their safety and to supplement requirements from other legislation eg Building Regulations, Fire Safety Order etc.

  

 Design and installation

Griffin Fire offer a complete signage service from survey to installation. Fire signage is integral to fire risk assessments and it is essential that the signs  are installed in accordance with British Standards.

   

 Training

The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 require that staff are trained in the following:

 

5.1 - Every employer shall ensure that comprehensible and relevant information on the measures to be taken in connection with safety signs is provided to each of his employees.

 5.2 - Every employer shall ensure that each of his employees receives suitable and sufficient instruction and training in the meaning of safety signs and the measures to be taken in connection with safety signs.

 

 This is included in all Griffin Fire training courses.

 

More information on the different types of signs

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