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AS 2359.16-2005
[Current]Powered industrial trucks, Part 16: Safety signs and hazard pictorials — General principles
Adopts ISO 15870:2000 to establish general principles for the design and application of safety signs and hazard pictorials permanently affixed to all types of powered industrial trucks. Also outlines safety sign objectives, describes the basic safety sign formats and colours and provides ip guidance on developing the various panels that together constitute a safety sign.
Published: 03/08/2005
Pages: 34
Table of contents
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope
2 Normative reference
3 Objectives of safety signs
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
4 Formats for safety signs
4.1 General
4.2 Two-panel safety signs: signal panel, message panel
4.3 Three-panel safety signs: signal panel, pictorial panel, message panel
4.4 Two-panel safety signs: pictorial panel, message panel
4.5 Two-panel safety signs: two pictorial panels
5 Signal panel
5.1
5.2
5.3
6 Pictorial panels
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
7 Message panel
7.1
7.2
8 Languages, translations and multi-language safety signs
8.1
8.2
8.3
9 Colours of safety signs
9.1 Colours of signal panel
9.2 Colours of pictorial panel
9.3 Colours of message panel
9.4 Colour of border
9.5 Colour of panel separation lines
10 Dimensions
10.1
10.2
11 Principles and guidelines for graphical design of hazard pictorials
12 Hazard description pictorials
13 Hazard avoidance pictorials
14 Examples of safety signs
14.1 Examples of safety signs with text
14.2 Examples of safety signs without text
Annex A
A.1 Introduction
A.2 Guidelines for creating pictorials
A.3 Human figure
A.3.1 Drawing a basic human figure
A.3.2 Human figure unit system
A.3.3 Human figure animation
A.3.4 Bold representation versus outline drawing of a human figure
A.3.5 Stationary, free-standing human figure (viewed from front or rear)
A.3.6 Profile head
A.4 Upper torso
A.5 Hands
A.5.1 Drawing the human hand and fingers
A.5.2 Adding hands to human figure
A.5.3 Hand profiles
A.6 Feet
A.6.1 Foot development
A.6.2 Adding feet to the human figure
A.7 Representation of machines, equipment and components
A.8 Arrows
A.8.1 Using arrows
A.8.2 Arrows representing falling or flying objects and their direction of motion
A.8.3 Arrows representing the direction of motion of machine components
A.8.4 Arrows representing the direction of motion of entire machines
A.8.5 Arrows representing the exertion of pressure or force
A.8.6 Arrows representing the idea of keeping a safe distance away from a hazard
A.9 Communicating the idea of prohibited action or hazardous location
A.9.1
A.9.2
A.9.3
Annex B
Annex C
Annex D
Annex E
E.1 Introduction
E.2 Size of graphical symbol
E.3 Size of text
Bibliography
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