Hazards & Safety Signs

Today at Metalwork, we have been given a task to blog about hazard and safety signs and the meaning of them.

What is a Hazard?

A Hazard is something that can cause harm or hurt someone, the hazard can be natural or done by humans. Natural Hazards are such as floods, drought but mostly it can be done by human activities. Hazard can create a major scene which can be embarrassing or life-threatening which is obviously dangerous.

Workshop Signs/Safety Signs:

Safety Signs in the workshop are signs that warn you so you can not harm or hurt yourself, things like something sharp taking metal for an example. If your working on metal and the pointy bit if the metal faces towards you, you may get a serious injury and this will create a big scene. Another thing is to put your bag under the desk, this can reduce the risk of people tripping over your bag and on something sharp or just falling onto your face or back.

Signs you will mostly find in the Workshop:

In workshops, you will definitely find a sign of wearing specific gear. The gear that is told to wear are meant to protect you from incidents and injuries. The gears you might be told to wear are safety glasses, Earmuffs to protect your ears from loud noise, Overall clothing to keep your current clothing clean or getting any stain on it, closed-in shoes to protect your feet from anything falling onto it and causing an injury. So mostly you will find it near dangerous objects or just labelled on machines.

Mandatory Sign:

Mandatory signs are mainly road signs which are used to set the commitments of all traffic which means people have to do specific rules given by the signs. It tells what the traffic must do and you must obey them or things can get serious and dangerous depending on the situation.

Prohibitive Sign:

A prohibitive sign is a safety sign banning the way likely to cause a risk to humans and our safety. These Health & safety signs are expected to be red show what is forbidden and what is not allowed. Prohibitive safety signs.