It has been proven that fire safety signs make a positive contribution to ensuring adequate fire safety measures are in place within your premises. New legislation requires that correct signage is present in order to conform:
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Any non-automatic fire fighting equipment provided is easily accessible, simple to use and indicated by signs.
- Emergency routes and exits must be indicated by signs; and emergency routes and exits requiring illumination must be provided with emergency lighting of adequate intensity in the case of failure of their normal lighting."
Health and Safety (Safety Signs & Signals) Regulations 1996
The effectiveness of a sign must not be adversely affected by:
- Poor design, insufficient number, incorrect positioning, poor state of repair or incorrect functioning of the signs or signalling devices.
- Depending on requirements, signs and signalling devices must be cleaned, maintained, checked, repaired and if necessary replaced on a regular basis to ensure that they retain their intrinsic and/or functional qualities.
- Signs requiring some form of power must be provided with a guaranteed emergency supply in the event of a power cut, unless the hazard has thereby been eliminated."
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) specifies the need for safe egress and evacuation of disabled occupants in an emergency situation. Fire, health and safety signs conforming to the requirements of BS 5499 Parts 1 and 5 and sited in accordance with the requirements of BS 5499 Part 4 will meet the requirements of the DDA subject to employees receiving sufficient and repeated information on the meaning of signs and actions that are needed to be taken in conjunction with signs.The above standards reflect the specific needs of building occupants with dyslexia and learning difficulties by making sure all supplementary text was in lower case to make comprehension much easier.
All Jalite Photoluminescent signs satisfy the current standards and are manufactured from Jalite AAA Photoluminescent material to ensure they are conspicuous in total power loss and smoke - a requirement under the new legislation.
Solutions Fire Safety is an independent fire consultancy providing your fire risk assessment and sign requirements in line with legislation. Following the requirements of correct signage within premises, Solutions has designed a Guide to Fire Safety Signs and Signage to enable the responsible person a greater understanding of their requirements and how to position signage.
Copies of the Sign Guide are free of charge to business owners and managers and should be used in conjunction with the Solutions Fire Safety sign seminar.
Solutions are providing FREE Sign Seminars to enable the responsible person a greater understanding of legislation and their requirements, copies of the Sign Guide are available free of charge to all delegates attending. Dates for 2008 Sign Seminars are available by emailing sales@solutionsfiresafety.co.uk or calling 0845 601 2632*.
For further information regarding Jalite's Photoluminescent signage contact
JALITE
Tel - 01268 242300
Email - sales@jalite.com
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