Clear Markings for Safer Workplaces
Street Solutions UK supplies a full range of floor safety & marking to warehouse managers, facilities managers, and health and safety officers across the UK. Our products are used for defining pedestrian walkways, vehicle lanes, hazard zones, and safety areas in warehouses and industrial floors, and all meet relevant Health and Safety at Work Act and BS EN standards.
- 082007Street Solutions UK
Attention Keep Aisles Clear - Floor Sign
430mm diameter £18.41 Ex. VAT£22.09 Inc. VAT
10+ save 1.5%100+ 6%3-5 working days -
- 082010Street Solutions UK
Attention No Smoking - Floor Signs
430mm diameter £18.41 Ex. VAT£22.09 Inc. VAT
10+ save 1.5%100+ 6%3-5 working days -
Floor signs against floor lines
Lines tell people where the boundaries are. Floor signs tell them what the rule is, and the two are not substitutes for one another.
A yellow line down a warehouse aisle defines a pedestrian route. It does not say keep the aisle clear, and it does not say no smoking. A floor sign puts the instruction on the surface people are already looking at, which is the point: on a busy floor, eyes are down and ahead, not up on a wall.
Use floor signs for the rules that get broken repeatedly in one place. A keep aisles clear sign belongs where pallets get parked, not distributed evenly round the building.
Placement decides whether they work
Put the sign where the decision is made, not where the consequence happens. A keep clear marking at the point someone is deciding where to set a pallet down works. The same marking further along, where the obstruction would be, is read after the fact.
Keep them out of the wheel tracks of the heaviest traffic if you can. A sign in the middle of a forklift racing line will be worn illegible within months, and a half-worn sign reads as a floor in poor condition rather than as an instruction.
Surface preparation is why they fail
Adhesive floor graphics come up for one reason: they were applied to a floor that was not properly prepared.
The surface must be clean, dry and free of dust, grease and old adhesive residue. A swept floor is not a clean floor. On a sealed concrete floor, degrease as well as sweep. Apply at a sensible temperature, because adhesive does not key properly in the cold, and roll the sign down from the centre outwards to push air out rather than trapping it.
Leave it to bond before running traffic over it. The first hour is when a marking is most easily lifted by a turning wheel.
Build a scheme, not a collection of signs
Floor marking works when it is consistent. Decide what each colour means across the whole building, mark the routes, then add signs only where a specific instruction is needed.
A floor with markings in four colours applied by three different people over five years communicates nothing, and people stop reading all of it. If the existing scheme has drifted, it is usually worth stripping and redoing rather than adding to.
For the lines themselves, see line marking paint, and for edge protection at floor junctions see floor trims.