ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 15870 First edition 2000-11-01 Powered industrial trucks Safety signs and hazard pictorials General principles Chariots de manutention automoteurs - Signaux de sécurité et de danger—Principesgéneraux Reference number ISO 15870:2000(E) ISO @ ISO 2000 by IHS under lic itted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 15870:2000(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be:edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In downloading this file, parties accept therein the responsibility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy. The IsO Central Secretariat accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademarkof Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by ISO member bodies. In the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below. ?ISO2000 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56.CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.ch Printed in Switzerland @ IsO 2000 - All rights reserved ermittedwithoutlicense from IHS Not for Resale ISO 15870:2000(E) Contents Page Foreword. .iv 1 Scope 2 Normative reference 3 Objectives of safety signs .. 4 Formats for safety signs .. 4.1 General... 4.2 Two-panel safety signs: signal panel, message panel. 4.3 Three-panel safety signs: signal panel, pictorial panel, message panel.... 4.4 4.5 Two-panel safety signs: two pictorial panels .... 5 Signal panel... 5 6 Pictorial panels 7 Message panel .. 8 Languages, translations and multi-language safety signs ... 6 Colours of safety signs 9.1 Colours of signal panel .. 9 9.2 Colours of pictorial panel .... 9.3 Colours of message panel.. 10 9.4 Colour of border... 9.5 Colour of panel separation lines. 10 10 Dimensions. 10 11 Principles and guidelines for graphical design of hazard pictorials... 12 Hazard description pictorials ... 13 13 Hazard avoidance pictorials 14 14 Examplesofsafetysigns.. 14 14.1 Examples of safety signs with text.... 14 14.2 Examples of safety signs without text .. .14 Annex A (informative) Principles and guidelines for graphical design of hazard pictorials. .15 Annex B (informative) Hazard description pictorials.. ..29 Annex C (informative) Hazard avoidance pictorials . ..30 Annex D (informative) Examples of safety signs without text... Annex E (informative) Sizes of graphic symbols and text.. .33 Bibliography. ..34 ili by IHS unde put license from IHS Not for Resale