TS EN ISO 7010

TS EN ISO 7010 is a graphical-symbols standard for registered safety signs used for accident prevention, fire protection, health-hazard information and emergency evacuation. It provides a common technical language for safety signage so that the meaning of a sign can be recognised consistently across different locations and applications.

How registered safety signs function as a visual system

Safety signs are designed to communicate quickly, with minimal ambiguity, in situations where attention may be limited. In general technical terms, shape and colour help classify the message, while the graphical symbol carries the core meaning. This is why safety signage is not just decoration or labeling: it is part of a structured visual communication system intended to support immediate understanding in workplaces, public facilities and other human-facing environments.

What this standard covers and how it relates to related ISO rules

According to the scope, the sign shape and colour are aligned with ISO 3864-1, and the graphical symbol design follows ISO 3864-3. The document also specifies safety-sign originals that can be scaled for reproduction and application purposes. Its coverage includes locations where safety issues related to people need to be addressed, but it excludes signalling used to guide rail, road, river, maritime and air traffic, as well as sectors governed by different regulations. In practice, this places the standard in the core safety-signage framework rather than in transport-control or sector-specific signalling systems.

• It addresses accident prevention, fire protection, health-hazard information and emergency evacuation.
• It defines registered safety signs as reproducible originals that can be scaled for use.
• It is intended for general human-safety contexts rather than transport guidance systems.
• It relies on the ISO 3864 series for colour, shape and symbol-design principles.