"hand signal" means a movement or position of the arms or hands or a combination thereof, in coded form, for guiding persons who are carrying out manoeuvres which create a risk to the health or safety of persons at work;
"illuminated sign" means a sign produced by a device made of transparent or translucent materials which are illuminated from the inside or the rear in such a way as to give the appearance of a luminous surface;
"mandatory sign" means a sign prescribing behaviour;
"prohibition sign” means a sign prohibiting behaviour likely to cause a risk to health or safety;
"safety colour" means a colour to which a meaning is assigned;
"safety sign" means a sign referring to a specific object, activity or situation and providing information or instructions about health or safety at work by means of a signboard, a safety colour, an illuminated sign, an acoustic signal, a verbal communication or a hand signal;
"signboard" means a sign which provides information or instructions by a combination of geometric shape, colour and a symbol or pictogram and which is rendered visible by lighting of sufficient intensity;
"symbol or pictogram" means a figure which describes a situation or prescribes behaviour and which is used on a signboard or illuminated surface;
"verbal communication" means a predetermined spoken message communicated by a human or artificial voice;
"warning sign" means a sign giving a warning of a risk to health or safety.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a sign providing instructions includes a mandatory sign, a prohibition sign and a warning sign.
(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and
(b) a reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which that reference occurs.
3.—(1) These Regulations shall not apply—
(a) to signs used in connection with the supply of any dangerous substance, preparation, product or equipment except to the extent that any enactment (whether in an Act or instrument) which requires such signs makes reference to these Regulations;
(b) to dangerous goods during the course of their transport by road, rail, inland waterway, sea or air;
(c) subject to paragraph (6) of regulation 4, to signs used for regulating road, rail, inland waterway, sea or air traffic; or
3.—(1) to or in relation to the master or crew of a sea-going ship or to the employer of such persons in respect of normal ship—board activities of a ship’s crew under the direction of the master.
(2) These Regulations shall apply—
(a) in Great Britain; and
(b) to and in relation to the premises and activities outside Great Britain to which sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the 1974 Act apply by virtue of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act (Application Outside Great Britain) Order 1995(a)[1] as they apply within Great Britain.
(3) These Regulations shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
- ↑ (a) S.I. 1995/263.
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