TS EN ISO 7010:2012

TS EN ISO 7010:2012 addresses registered safety signs used for accident prevention, fire protection, health hazard information and emergency evacuation. The standard ties the sign shape and colour to ISO 3864-1 and the graphical symbol design to ISO 3864-3, so the same safety message can be recognised consistently across locations and applications. In practical terms, it supports a common visual language for communicating hazards and safe behaviour.

What registered safety signs are meant to communicate

Safety signs serve different functions, such as prohibiting an action, warning of a hazard, requiring a behaviour, indicating a safe condition, or identifying fire-related equipment and routes. In this standard, the registered sign originals are defined so they may be scaled for reproduction and application purposes. That makes it possible to preserve the intended meaning while adapting the sign to different sizes and installation conditions.

Where the standard applies, and where it does not

The standard is intended for locations where safety issues related to people need to be addressed. It does not apply to signalling used for guiding rail, road, river, maritime or air traffic, and it acknowledges that some sectors may be governed by different regulatory systems. From a technical perspective, this distinction matters because traffic guidance signs and workplace or facility safety signs are designed for different operational contexts, even when both rely on symbols and colour coding.

• Shape and colour are aligned with ISO 3864-1
• Graphical symbols follow ISO 3864-3
• Covers accident prevention, fire protection, health hazard information and emergency evacuation
• Intended for places where people-related safety issues must be addressed
• Provides sign originals that can be scaled for reproduction