Traffic signs are essentially a daily routine, everyone who drives on the road has to obey the traffic signs. Whether they are exit signs or just general safety signs including speed restrictions, no entry, or general advice on road conditions or weather restrictions like snow and ice. Health and safety is all about keeping people safe, allowing people to go about their daily business as safely as possible whilst taking into account any warning signs they may come across.
Cestrian signs limited and safetysignsuk strive to help keep people safe on a daily basis by producing good quality accurate safety signs that follow the health and safety signs directive from the executive. Any changes which are enforceable by law are cascaded down to all our customers and changes which require action are high lighted.
Exit signs and traffic signs have changed very little over the last few years however health and safety signs, warning signs and fire safety signs and always being updated to bring them in line with the EU directive, this mainly includes using pictorgrammes and creating a sign which can be recognised all across the eu as being a standard which you don’t have to read the language to understand.
The most recent update to the directive is being pushed through in August 2011. This directive includes the updating of the mandatory signs under the health and safety signs banner an example of one of the changes is that the hard hat pictorgramme put be a side profile not a front profile which was previously standard.

With all the bad whether and dangerous road and walkway conditions we have been very busy with our safety signs. Warning signs for slippery and ice surfaces have been our top seller during the first week of January due to the adverse weather conditions. Traffic signs have also been very popular this month as people have been able to take stock of their current signage while it has been quiet over the christmas period.
Health and safety signage is always in the forefront of any employers mind but especially when accidents are often expected during adverse weather conditions. Fire exits are frozen up and health and safety issues become a major problem. Here at cestrian signs we are able to supply all kinds of health and safety signs which enable any employer to help keep his staff safe. Safety signs can be made up to any size in pretty much any material, exit signs can incorporate an extra bespoke message or pictorgramme and Fire safety signs can include medical emergency procedures as well as fire exit signs.
Traffic signs or temporary traffic signs are being used alot at the moment as they are a cheap and cheerful and can be moved around site easily to cover your responsibilities as an employer for the unexpected health and safety signs issues.
If you need bespoke health and safety signs at a price you can afford we can supply a cost effective solution.

A local school has just had a health and safety inspection by the local council and realised that all their Fire safety signs are not upto scratch. The fact that they have been in the building for the last twenty five years has of cause affected the effectivness of the signage, as has the change of use of parts of the building and re decorating and painting over of exit signs by the decorators.
It is always worth doing a health and safety survey every couple of years to check the signs to make sure they are still doing their job. The gem glow or photoluminescent signs only glow for a certain number of years before the chemical becomes inert and so exit signs, fire safety signs and general health and safety signs no longer glow in the dark, rendering them useless if a fire takes hold and the lights go out. Also new legislation means the fire exit signs must have a pictorgram where ever relevant incase the occupant can’t read english or in the case of a child can’t read at all but can follow an arrow and running man.
A basic health and safety work regualtions 1999 leaflet is available from cestrian signs ltd and safetysignsuk.co.uk for those who may find it useful.