scope:

This standard provides general criteria for the design, evaluation, and use of safety symbols to identify and warn against specific hazards and to provide information to avoid personal injury.

Purpose

It is the purpose of this standard to promote the adoption and use of uniform and effective safety symbols for safety communication. This standard also provides a procedure for evaluating image effectiveness in communicating the intended message, as well as considerations for graphic design of safety symbols.

Existing Standards and Regulations

There are a number of existing standards that are recognized for particular industries or specific uses. Compliance with these standards may be considered for the particular industry or use. It is not the intent of ANSI Z535.3 to replace existing standards or regulations that are uniquely applicable to a specific industry or use. It is the intent to encourage adoption of this standard in subsequent revisions of other standards and regulations.