ISO 7001:2023—Registered Public Information Symbols
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…
ANSI Z535.3-2022: Designing Effective Safety Symbols
What is yellow, green, red, or blue? The answer is a safety symbol. ANSI Z535.3-2022: Criteria for Safety Symbols outlines the criteria for safety symbols….
ANSI Z535.1-2022: Standard for Safety Colors
Through their effective and quick recognition, safety colors enhance the ability of a word message or safety symbol to convey essential information to workers. American…
ANSI Z97.1 & Safety Glazing Material Markings
For a change, look at glass (or plastic), not through it. In small lettering, you might see some letters and numbers. Markings like “ANSI Z97.1-2015”…
Symbols for Medical Device Labels
A voluntary consensus standard can result in the summation of the best existing practices and techniques in an industry that were in use prior to…
Why Some Colors Are More Visible: The Evolutionary and Cultural Forces Driving Our Eyes
The world stuffed with colors, vibrant and omnipresent, occupying living forms, inanimate objects, and other sorts of matter reflecting varying wavelengths of the color spectrum….
ISO 3166-1:2020 – Country Codes Standard Changes
The standard that specifies country codes, ISO 3166-1:2020 – Codes For The Representation Of Names Of Countries And Their Subdivisions – Part 1: Country Code,…
ISO Country Codes – Standards in the ISO 3166 Series
There’s a whole world out there, and it’s filled with a vast array of idiosyncratic places. However, language barriers and communication issues can stunt international…
NFPA 80-2019: Standard for Fire Doors
In another post, we covered NFPA 105-2019: Smoke Door and Opening Protectives, the NFPA standard for smoke doors and other opening protectives, such as smoke…