Personal protection safety products are required under a wide range of health and safety regulations and guidelines. The objective is to create a safe working environment, and to prevent, wherever possible, accidents to the workforce. Our signs for the mandatory use of such safety equipment, includes protection to the body, head, eyes, ears, hands and feet, and emphasise the need to use the equipment as instructed.

Here at Label Source we want to ensure that you are kept safe when operating equipment at work, or if working in potentially dangerous environments, such as working at heights, confined spaces or in explosive atmospheres, to name but a few.

Our range of body protection mandatory safety signs promote the use of specialist clothing as protection from contact with chemicals, electricity, damage from hot or cold temperatures, or for reasons of hygiene. These signs act as a reminder to staff to wear the provided protective clothing, such as high visibility jackets, life jackets, lab coats and aprons.

Label Source also provides a range of signs informing people to wear head protection. These signs are used to inform and remind workers to wear helmets, hair nets and hard hats, protecting them against injury from falling objects, overhead obstacles, or hair entanglement.

Our range of foot and hand protection are available to inform workers to wear hand and foot protection, preventing any hazards including wet conditions, slippery surfaces, cuts and punctures, chemical spillages, electric shocks, infections, and contamination. This range includes signs reminding people to wear gloves, disposable gloves, boots, and anti-statics footwear.

Our final range of personal protection is to ensure the safety from eye and ear damage. Eye protection signs are used to inform and remind workers to wear protection against any potential hazards including, spillages, dust, radiation and gas and vapour release. This range covers, face shields, opaque eye protection, welding mask, glasses and googles. Ear protection, protects workers from loud or excessive noises such as use of machinery, transport or explosions. These signs remind workers to wear ear protection for your safety.

For our wide range of personal protection safety signs click here. Ensure that all your workers are kept safe by displaying these signs in and around the workplace. 

If you need to identify the risks and dangers in operating workplace machinery, to comply with your duty of care, then look no further. Label Source has developed a comprehensive range of health and safety signs and labels, to clearly warn workers of potential risks in operating on, or near, industrial plant, tooling, and machines, or when cleaning, oiling, servicing or during maintenance.

These safety signs and labels create awareness of risks of accidents or injuries from dangerous machinery use. These can include pinch or nip, punch, cut, wrap, crush or entanglement injuries, or accidents from sparks, and flying or falling objects. Injuries can be sustained to head, eyes, body, hands or feet, and can range in severity from minor cuts, scrapes and grazes to broken limbs, loss of eyesight, amputations, asphyxiation and even death.

Much industrial equipment and conveyors have a range of moving parts, including pulley drives, cogwheels, gears and sprockets, rotating cutters or blades, and a variety of exposed screws, keys and bolts, which can cause damage on contact with skin, or entanglement with clothing, jewellery and long hair.

Our signs clearly warn of these dangers, with associated prohibition activities (such as removal of safety guards), the use of necessary personal protective equipment (gloves, glasses, face shields, protective footwear etc.) when operating such machinery, and safety aids, such as eye wash, first aid and emergency showers.

All these health and safety signs and labels comply with the latest standards (ISO EN 7010) for graphics, colours and layouts, and to the Safety Signs and Signals Regulations 1996. These can assist in complying with the Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1974, the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, and the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.

The European parliament described needle sick injury as ‘one of the most serious health and safety threats in European workplace’. Especially for people working in the healthcare sector where injuries occur at any time when handling needles, syringes or any other needle equipment, which are disassembled or disposed. Other occupations which can also be affected are carers, cleaners and tattoo artists.

The European Agency of Occupational Health and Safety estimates that 1 million needle stick injuries occur every year. This then makes workers more vulnerable and at risk to catching deadly viruses such as hepatitis B and C and HIV. These injuries can expose workers to over 20 different blood borne diseases, as even small amounts of infectious fluid can spread certain diseases effectively, also an injury can cause psychological distress, which is caused by the fear that they may have been infected.

Label Source wants to help you prevent needle stick injuries in the workplace. We provide a range of signs informing you of how to prevent any injuries. Signs which are displayed around the workplace informing people to dispose of used sharps and needles, wear disposal gloves, hand protection, clinical and hazardous waste, clean area and report all accidents, can prevent needle stick injuries from accruing. Our first aid poster, preventing injuries from sharps and needle stick are considered a part of the routine practises by healthcare workers, and other handlers of sharps; so make sure you are following these routine best practices with the help of Label Source.  

It is that time of year again; winter is slowly drawing in on us, which means only one thing... Flu season!! Flu is one of the most common causes of sickness absence throughout the winter. It can easily be spread and very unpleasant. Label Source wants to help prevent flu spreading by assisting you with hygiene signs in and around the workplace.

One way to help prevent flu would be by washing your hands frequently. This can prevent infectionss and illnesses. It was discovered that, washing your hands with water and soap routinely can prevent you from a number of infections like salmonella, E. coli 0157, and norovirus that causes diarrhea, and it can spread some respiratory infections like adenovirus and hand-foot-mouth disease.

If you are working within a fast environment, where you feel you do not have the time or access to wash your hands regularly, an easy way to do so would be the use of hand santitisers. This is particularly good if you work in healthcare, where patients are vulnerable to infections and germs. The environment must also be kept clean to prevent germs and infections spreading.

Label Source can help you prevent the spread of germs by displaying personal hygiene signs. We provide a range of signs for personal hygiene, hand washing, hand sanitising, skin protection, hand protection, hair protection and clean areas. These signs can be used within many different industries such as healthcare, catering, manufacturing, food processing, retail and many more. This can prevent the amount of sick days people are taking, as research by the Co-Operative Pharmacy estimated that, 7.6 million working days a year are lost to flu, costing the British economy £1.35Bn.

Label Source wants you to have a healthy winter, so make sure your hygiene signs are displayed to prevent the dreaded flu! Together we can beat flu.

Any questions hygiene signs please contact or sales office:

On 08003761693 in the UK

or +441443842769 for International calls outside of the UK

or email us on sales@labelsource.co.uk

Vandalism is a shamefully common sight in modern Britain - whether it's graffiti, defacement, or general destruction, you can scarcely turn a corner these days without spotting some sort of pointless destruction.

But as unsightly as smashed-up bus shelters and spray-painted walls are, there's one particularly deplorable form of vandalism on which we'd like to focus: the defacement of safety signs. This appears to be something of a trend at the moment, and it's very worrying - people are rendering signs almost illegible, with no apparent consideration of the potential consequences.

This story from Inverclyde Now is a good example. Vandals have been defacing, damaging, and even stealing signs from several reservoirs in the Inverclyde area, and while such acts would be foolish and juvenile enough without the health and safety implications, the truly frightening part is just how important these signs and their messages are.

One such sign - given as an example in the IN article - reads:

"BE AWARE! Deaths have occurred at reservoirs"

The sign then goes on to list some of the dangers associated with reservoirs, such as deep water and steep, hidden embankments. Signs like these are designed to make people aware of potentially life-threatening hazards, and by removing/defacing these signs, vandals are sharply increasing the likelihood of a serious accident.

This problem isn't limited to Scottish reservoirs, either; it's happening all over the country. We recently read of some No Entry signs in Liverpool that had been removed by vandals, making the nature of the one-way street far less obvious to motorists. This is obviously a huge crash risk, and the signs will now have to be replaced using taxpayer money.

Authorities are urging vandals to consider the consequences of their actions and stop defacing important signs such as those mentioned above. If you ever see anybody vandalising or removing a safety sign, please report it to the police as a matter of urgency - you never know whose life you might save!