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An employee doing work on his computer that has a critical error warning message in red that complies to ANSI Z535.7-2024.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols

ANSI Z535.7-2024: Product Safety Info in Electronic Media

ByAlexandra Schirn August 21, 2025August 19, 2025

In today’s increasingly digital world, the way we communicate critical safety and product information is undergoing a significant transformation. What was once delivered primarily through…

Various medical devices in a hospital that have symbols that comply with ISO 15223-1:2021.
ANSI | Health Care | Labels and Symbols

ISO 15223-1:2021—Medical Devices Symbols

ByAlexandra Schirn March 26, 2025June 4, 2025

Symbols on medical devices are crucial for patient safety, regulatory compliance, and effective communication, allowing for clear and concise information across different languages and cultures. ISO…

Machine operators reading graphic symbols on process equipment in a factor that adhere to ANSI/ISA S5.5-1985.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols | Manufacturing | Piping

ANSI/ISA S5.5-1985: Graphic Symbols for Process Displays

ByAlexandra Schirn October 7, 2024June 4, 2025

Examples of process equipment popularly used in industries—such as refineries, chemical plants, and wastewater treatment plants—are pumps, valves, vessels, filters, coolers, boilers, engines, compressors, storage…

Diagram showing updated instrumentation and control symbols from the ANSI/ISA-5.1-2024 standard, including new identification codes and symbol enhancements for process diagrams.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols | Piping

ANSI/ISA 5.1-2024: Instrumentation Symbols & Identification

ByAlexandra Schirn August 19, 2024August 13, 2025

In many industries, like oil and gas, engineers create a blueprint for equipment and control layout, which is called a Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID),…

A safety manual for a children's toy that complies to ANSI Z535.6‑2023 specifications for collateral materials, which details warnings of a choking hazard for young children.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols | Occupational Health and Safety

ANSI Z535.6-2023: Safety Info in Manuals and Instructions

ByAlexandra Schirn February 2, 2024August 21, 2025

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) protects the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products like coffee…

xample of product safety label with signal word panel, message panel, and pictorial symbol panel according to ANSI Z535.4.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols | Occupational Health and Safety

ANSI Z535.4‑2023: Guide to Product Safety Signs & Labeling

ByAlexandra Schirn February 1, 2024August 21, 2025

Displaying safety signs and labels helps to prevent injury and ensure staff and visitors are aware of potential hazards ahead. Without these effective signs, many…

Various ANSI Z535.2‑2023 compliant environmental safety signs outside a hazardous facility. One sign displays a black triangle on a yellow background that states "BIOLOGICAL HAZARD"; another sign states "NO ENTRY" and has a red circle with a diagonal red line on it on a white background; and the last sign states "NOTICE" in white bold letters on a blue background.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols | Occupational Health and Safety

ANSI Z535.2-2023: Facility/Environment Safety Signs

ByAlexandra Schirn January 31, 2024August 21, 2025

Although the safety sign classification system we are familiar with today began in the early 1900s with the emergence of automobiles, these were not the…

Industrial Welder holding welding Torch with welding sparks with equipment adhering to ISO 17846:2004.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols | Welding

ISO 17846:2004— Welding And Allied Processes

ByAlexandra Schirn January 4, 2024June 10, 2025

Over 50% of all manmade products require welding. These products range from cars, planes, trains, buildings, computers, race cars, bridges, ships, cell phones, medical devices,…

Airport symbols adhering to ISO 7001:2023.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols

ISO 7001:2023—Registered Public Information Symbols

ByAlexandra Schirn February 22, 2023June 4, 2025

Symbols are created as an abstract way to comprehend something that is based on life experiences. Much of what humans need to comprehend are gestalts…

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