Safety signs and symbols: specific hazards
The community service environment may also use signs to indicate specific hazards that may cause harm to a person if they don’t take appropriate notice or action. Warning signs should always have a black symbol on a yellow triangular back ground. These signs may or may not have words depending on the hazard.
Examples of hazard signs found in the community service environment include:
- flammable materials
- hazardous chemical
- biological hazards
- biohazard sharps receptacle
- bloodborne pathogen kit
- radiation
- toxic hazard.
