Graphical Symbols: Standardization is Key

Clarion Safety Systems is in a unique position to supply product manufacturers, workplaces and public areas with the most up-to-date, standards-compliant safety signs, labels and markings.

To develop effective safety sign systems that communicate across language barriers, standardized graphical symbols are key. Clarion Safety Systems explains why standardization is critical in achieving a universal understanding of graphical symbols, how the process of standardization occurs within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and how it is creating a new global language -- independent of words -- that helps to keep people safe from harm.

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Video Transcript:
[00:00:04] I'm Geoffrey Peckham and I chair the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Standards having to do with graphical symbols. We're here at the design department of Delft University to discuss the standardization of graphical symbols. Between sessions, I spent a few minutes in a busy hall with several of our key committee members and the hope of giving you an appreciation for the topic of symbol standardization and how we're literally inventing a new language that's global in nature and independent of words. Here's Barry Gray our chairman... [00:10:29] We're making life easier for people, first of all. Hopefully we're making life safer for people, because uh you know if people see this so common language of symbols across the nations, across the world, um, they are more confident, they are more relaxed. Um if you provide things that people understand in an airport, ya know it just takes that lever of tension down. Ya know if you're in the business of actually getting people out of a building in an emergency, if they see the signs they understand in a consistent way, presented to them. Ya know, they are going to be confident that they're going the right way, they're doing the right thing and they're less like to panic. [00:10:09] The world is connected and it's been exciting to see the adoption of ISO Standards. If you're looking to develop effective sign systems that communicate across language barriers, use standardized graphic symbols. Keep people safe and aware of their surroundings. [00:11:24]