International Organization for Standardization-ISO | Health and Safety

International Organization for Standardization-ISO | Health and Safety

ISO stands for the International Organization for Standardization, it was French and so that's why it comes out ISO instead of “IOS”. The ISO Technical Committee 145 standardizes graphical symbols on a worldwide basis, as well as safety sign formats and safety label formats and colors and how you integrate the symbols and colors onto signage.
Yellow- So the safety can be communicated on a worldwide basis consistently that's the key consistency yellow is used on a warning sign and your warning triangle and it's the background color for a black symbol it indicates that our potential hazard is present.
Red- There are prohibition signs, it's a red circle with a red slash going through it at a 45-degree angle upper left to lower right and it has a black graphic symbol behind it and those signs indicate something that you should not do or you have the potential to interact with a hazard and get hurt.
Blue- You have mandatory action signs and these are blue circles white graphic and they indicate an action that you should take in order to avoid a hazard typically you might use those for like personal protective equipment, wearing hardhats, wearing eye protection, type of thing.
You have the symbols of having to do with fire equipment there red square with a white flame determinative element and a white graphical symbol indicating what the equipment is such as a fire extinguisher or a fire alarm.
Green- You have green squares with white graphics in them and therefore the location of safety equipment or a safe condition like the cross which would be for use for first-aid, the Running Man going through an open door, and that's to indicate that there’s an emergency exit in this direction.
The type of thing so green, red, blue and yellow in ISO they all indicate a different type of safety message so as you get closer to the sign you see, not just the color but the symbol and the symbol would tell you what these specific messages that are the vocabulary of how color is used in ISO.

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