Building Signs Essential for Safe Evacuation

The main purpose of the building signs is that, it helps to ensure safety for all the people occupying the building.

Using the building signs are a way of directing the people to a place which will help them in ensuring their safety. The "emergency exit signs" shows the people, the way of departing a building. These are important for the occupants of the buildings as well as for the owners. Suppose, due to the absence of any such building signs a freak accident occurs in the building. In this case the owner may unnecessarily get entangled in a legal matter. This often happens when there are no proper evacuation signs. Due to this, the evacuees get injured or may pass away as they do not get proper direction in how to evacuate the place.

There are three varieties of building signs which are mandatory to be there in all commercial buildings. This is a way of protecting the building occupants as well as the building owners. The signs are as follows:

Fire Equipment Signs - These cannot be considered as the fire safety signs, however, they serve the purpose. These signs mainly indicate where the fire extinguishers, fire hose and stand pipes are kept. If fire breaks out, it is always advised that one should leave a building. But if in any case, evacuation is not possible then the fire can be controlled to some extent by using these tools. These signs should always be kept very near so that they can be used as soon as emergency occurs. The fire equipment signs must be photo luminescent so that, they can be visible through smoke.

Signs indicating floor - The signs which indicates the floor is compulsory in each and every buildings. They should be clearly put in the landing of every floor within the vertical exit enclosures. To ensure that evacuation is done safely, the photo luminescent identification signs used in the floors and also in the exit will help the people to know that from where they should exit.

Running man signs - It is used for emergency exit and it indicates that the exit leading doors and the passageways are ahead. The running man symolises the direction in which the evacuees should run after they have passed the door.

Nowadays, most of the sky scrapers have a special well laid out plan that is well rehearsed. But during the emergency, people starts panicking and they may not see the exit doors. So, it has become really necessary to use the photo luminescent building signs.

Previously, the signs that were used in the office buildings were painted. But with huge advancement in technology, the building signs have become much more appealing and this has given it a great look. As more and more people pass by the location of your office, seeing the building signs will create a positive impression in their minds. There are various types of buildings signs available. Once you have decided to use building signs, then it is essential that you decide upon a budget and also the architectural designs.