Accidents at work, especially if involving fatalities, continue to be reported widely in local, regional and national media. While those on a larger scale, and sometimes accompanied by a greater level of notoriety, such as the Bangladesh building collapse in April 2013, tend to have intense international coverage and scrutiny.

In a wide range of health and safety legislation and guidelines, a duty of care applies both to employers and employees for the safe operation of workplace equipment. Such equipment, machinery or plant must be maintained and fit for purpose, the working environment should be safe, suitable training should be undertaken, operating procedures should be rigorous and relevant personal protective safety equipment should be provided and used. Accidents tend to occur when one or more of these tend not to be observed.

Our range of health and safety labels can assist in identifying risks and hazards at work and prohibited activities, promote employee welfare, and to indicate the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Potential hazards can be clearly identified. These can include electrical, biological, radiation, temperature (high, low or hot surfaces), chemical (such as toxic, corrosive, harmful or irritant), and mechanical (pinch points, moving blades, finger trap, or crush) risks in the workplace.

Mandatory labels emphasise the need to use the protective equipment supplied to prevent injury to eyesight, hearing, face, fingers, hands, body or feet. Also, others cover the need to read the manual or handbook for the equipment or for greasing or lubrication points on equipment.

Prohibition stickers advise of actions which may be dangerous, such as reaching over or into equipment, or from smoking or use of naked flames.

For further information on these safety labelling stickers, our comprehensive product ranges can be located in the following label categories; warning symbol labels; engineering labels; safety labels; laminated safety labels; custom safety labels; and Ansi labels.

In the global economy, it is imperative that production, processes and services consistently meet the required standards to satisfy the expectations of customers. Anything less can lead to customers opting for your competitors as confidence in your company ebbs away, and as returns, rejects or reworking escalate.

Calibration and dimensional testing are the necessary requirement methods to make sure that your equipment, instruments, meters, gauges and tools accurately meet the measurement standards. Many are included in internationally recognised standards such as ISO 17025 (BS EN 17025: 2005 in the UK) and ISO 9001.

At the end of such tests, checks and verification, the visual guide to users is to affix a label or tag to confirm compliance that instruments will operate within tolerances. These labels can advise date of calibration, frequency of calibration, tests undertaken and traceability.

Our range of calibration labels, calibration tags and calibration dots have been used for tests relating to dimensional, electrical, humidity, pressure, thermal and torque, in diverse industrial sectors including aerospace, oil, gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, automotive, medical and telecommunications. In addition, other ranges are produced in other formats including write and seal, and those produced in aluminium foil, tamper evident or tamperproof vinyl.

Besides the standard calibration and test labels on offer, we have supplied many UKAS approved laboratories and test centres with custom produced marking product. These can include company logos, help desk numbers, service centre return address details, and serial numbering or barcoding to provide tracking and access to test records.

For further information please contact Label Source by e-mail (sales @labelsource.co.uk) or telephone 0800 3761693 (in UK), or +44 1443 842769 (outside UK) to discuss your requirements.

In order to prevent workplace injury or death to operators, or damage to equipment mechanisms, use our safe condition range of emergency cut off labels and signs to clearly identify shut off points. Prompt action can minimise effects of accidents (such as entanglement or crush injuries) or destruction of machinery, by manually shutting down power to motors or valves. These cut off points can be activated to shut off electricity, gas or supply of fuel to operating equipment.

Our identification products have been used in a variety of industries to mark emergency cut off controls on industrial machinery, presses, heavy lifting equipment, fuel pumps, conveyors and escalators. Also, ranges of hazard warning signs are available, to inform machine users of operating dangers, and signs for shut off controls for supply of electricity, water and gas.

Explosive atmospheres hazard zones in the workplace have to be clearly marked in accordance with The Dangerous Substance and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR), with the aim to eliminate or control such risks from flammable gases, vapours or combustible dust being ignited on mixing with air. These are the implementation of the EU’s ATEX Regulations, both the Workplace Directive (99/92/EC) and the Equipment Directive for electrical and mechanical tools (94/9/EC).

Label Source has a range of health and safety to identify areas of potential risk from gas or dust release, with the use of correct equipment (including equipment labels), in hazard zones ranging from Zone 0 to Zone 2 (for gases), and Zone 20 to Zone 22 (for dust), and for related equipment for safe operation in the zones.

There are a range of potential sources of ignition such as sparks (either electrical or mechanically generated), electrostatic discharge, high surface temperatures, ionising radiation, naked flames, electrical networks, radio frequency or electromagnetic waves, ultrasound, lightning or adiabatic atmosphere compression).

Our signs are used in a wide spectrum of customers involved in manufacture, storage, transportation, recycling or use of paint, varnishes, flammable gases (such as acetylene), methane at landfill sites, petrol, LPG, chemicals, resins, solvents and plastics, or particles from wood, coal, grain, flour, animal feeds, coatings or powders.

For ATEX applications our ranges include signs for no smoking and no naked flame prohibition safety, hazard warning (including EX signs), electrical safety, electrostatic discharge, chemical warning, and use of personal protective equipment.

Label Source supply a range of electrical and electronic equipment labels to identify electrical safety features such as electrical earth or ground. These are to assure users of the equipment that they are safe from injury from the electrical shock. In addition, these markers can provide evidence of the performance integrity of appliances, lightning protection and prevention of static electrical charge.

Amongst the range of electrical safety symbols are electrical earth, safety earth, ground, protective conductor, neutral conductor, potential equalisation, direct current (DC), alternating current (AC), positive and negative.

In addition, we have several other label ranges for electrical equipment marking.

If you have any made to order requirements involving electrical equipment markers, please contact us by e-mail (sales@labelsource.co.uk ) or by telephone 0800 3761693 (UK), or +44 1443 842769 (outside UK).