Workplace safety is a key factor in ensuring smooth, responsible operations – whether in manufacturing facilities, technical services, municipal institutions or other industrial and public-sector environments.
One often underestimated, yet highly effective, part of any safety strategy is visual communication: clear, well-positioned, and standard-compliant signage can literally save lives.
80% of Workplace Accidents Could Be Avoided With Better Visibility
Recent studies speak volumes: up to 80% of workplace accidents could be prevented with improved visibility of hazards and clearer safety signage.
Signs designed in line with DIN EN ISO 7010 play a crucial role here. This international standard ensures that safety messages are presented in a universally understandable way – regardless of language or prior knowledge. This not only ensures legal compliance, but also significantly improves day-to-day protection for employees, visitors, and external contractors.
What Does This Mean in Practice for Facility Managers and Health & Safety Officers?
Even if you’re not a trained safety specialist, there’s a lot you can do with a few practical measures. In fact, safety doesn’t always begin with complex processes – it often starts with small, everyday decisions:
- Install signage where risks are present – At machines, doors, stairs, passageways, storage areas, electrical boxes – anywhere a potential hazard needs to be clearly identified.
- Ensure visibility – Place signs in direct line of sight, ensure sufficient contrast with the background, install at an appropriate height, and add lighting or reflective elements where needed – especially in darker or high-traffic areas.
- Follow current standards – Use only signage that complies with DIN EN ISO 7010. This not only ensures legal certainty, but also guarantees comprehensibility – particularly in teams with varied language or cultural backgrounds.
- Inspect and maintain regularly – Are all signs still up to date? Clearly legible? Intact? Have any new risks emerged that require marking? A quick visual inspection during routine checks or facility walkthroughs is often enough to spot gaps.
Important: Many signs are installed once and then forgotten. But signage only protects when it is well maintained, visible, and up to date.
Practical Tip: Start Your Safety Check With a System
As workplace safety continues to be a priority across industrial, manufacturing, and facility environments, now is a great time to familiarize yourself with DURABLE’s Workplace Safety Guide and explore ways to help strengthen your customers’ safety programs.
The guide provides practical information that can help you identify opportunities to improve workplace visibility, reinforce safety best practices, and support customers in creating safer, more compliant work environments.
The Workplace Safety Guide includes:
- An overview of key safety signage requirements and standards
- Practical guidance on selecting, placing, and maintaining safety signage
- Recommended DURABLE solutions designed for industrial and facility environments
Take a few minutes to review the Workplace Safety Guide and consider how these insights and solutions can help your customers enhance workplace safety, improve compliance, and reduce risk throughout their facilities.
This content was provided by DURABLE.
