About Fire Exit Signs-
Fire Exit signs are generally provided to help and guide you wherever you are in any building, through the place of a relative safety that is the escape path to that place which ensures ultimate safety, the assembly area.
Fire Exit signs are not required at the main route inside or out of the building (that is the one used usually by people normally for arrival and exit), yet alternate escape paths and complicated escape channels must be signed. It however should not be taken for granted that everybody will know all the safe routes in the building. Similarly, again, it should not be assumed that, if once you are outside the building through any final exit, people will know how to be to the area of assembly, so the signs directing towards the assembly area will be required as well.
Fire exit signs are generally green and white in color- safe condition. They have to comprise a pictogram, an arrow, and also possibly words.
A sign only with just an arrow, or say just mere words, or an arrow with words is not at all sufficient. There has to be a pictogram that includes the €rapidly walking man€.
Signs to the British Standard 5499: part 4:2000 possesses such a man going through a door. The other way to identify the signs to the BS5499 is the text is in lower case away from the very first letter. Signs which are illuminated from the back side or within like in a case of the escape light with the escape sign incorporated will be having the white figure entering through a green door with a white surrounding.
Some of the modern designs do show an escape sign along with an emergency light. You will easily spot in your area, a plastic sign which has been stuck onto the emergency light.
This idea is not a good one, the sign further will reduce the illumination already provided by the escape light and levels of lights from the escape lights are quite low to start off with!
Please note - emergency escape lights will never be covered in any way in this guidance.
You might also spot some Fire Exit Signs with fluorescent yellow backgrounds rather than the normal white one. Like the high-visibility jerkins such signs are usually designed to successfully glow in the dark and also show up extremely well as to where the escape lighting is non-existent or poor.
One must know that if the assembly point is not clearly seen from any final exit, fire exit signs need to be shown directing the people to it. If once in the vicinity of this assembly point it has to be figured out. Examples of suitable fire exit signs are shown on the web. They have to be mounted in a standard way, above a certain height, so that they can easily be seen if the people are congregating already, i.e. above the head height.
Fire Exit signs are generally provided to help and guide you wherever you are in any building, through the place of a relative safety that is the escape path to that place which ensures ultimate safety, the assembly area.
Fire Exit signs are not required at the main route inside or out of the building (that is the one used usually by people normally for arrival and exit), yet alternate escape paths and complicated escape channels must be signed. It however should not be taken for granted that everybody will know all the safe routes in the building. Similarly, again, it should not be assumed that, if once you are outside the building through any final exit, people will know how to be to the area of assembly, so the signs directing towards the assembly area will be required as well.
Fire exit signs are generally green and white in color- safe condition. They have to comprise a pictogram, an arrow, and also possibly words.
A sign only with just an arrow, or say just mere words, or an arrow with words is not at all sufficient. There has to be a pictogram that includes the €rapidly walking man€.
Signs to the British Standard 5499: part 4:2000 possesses such a man going through a door. The other way to identify the signs to the BS5499 is the text is in lower case away from the very first letter. Signs which are illuminated from the back side or within like in a case of the escape light with the escape sign incorporated will be having the white figure entering through a green door with a white surrounding.
Some of the modern designs do show an escape sign along with an emergency light. You will easily spot in your area, a plastic sign which has been stuck onto the emergency light.
This idea is not a good one, the sign further will reduce the illumination already provided by the escape light and levels of lights from the escape lights are quite low to start off with!
Please note - emergency escape lights will never be covered in any way in this guidance.
You might also spot some Fire Exit Signs with fluorescent yellow backgrounds rather than the normal white one. Like the high-visibility jerkins such signs are usually designed to successfully glow in the dark and also show up extremely well as to where the escape lighting is non-existent or poor.
One must know that if the assembly point is not clearly seen from any final exit, fire exit signs need to be shown directing the people to it. If once in the vicinity of this assembly point it has to be figured out. Examples of suitable fire exit signs are shown on the web. They have to be mounted in a standard way, above a certain height, so that they can easily be seen if the people are congregating already, i.e. above the head height.