ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 3864-2 Second edition 2016-12-15 Graphical symbols Safety colours and safety signs - Part 2: Design principles for product safety labels Symboles graphiques Couleurs de sécurité et signaux de sécurité - Partie 2: Principes de conception pour I'étiquetage de sécurité des produits Reference number IS0 3864-2:2016(E) ISO @ ISO 2016 IS0 3864-2:2016(E) Contents Page Foreword iv Introduction V 1 Scope. 1 2 Normative references. 3 Terms and definitions. 4 Purpose of safety colours. 3 4.1 General 4.2 Contrast colours. 4.3 Use of colour 5 Hazard severity panels. 5.1 General.. 5 5.2 Layout of hazard severity panels. 6 Type and layout of product safety labels. 6.1 General. 6.2 Single safety sign 6.3 Safety sign used with a separated supplementary safety information text panel 6.4 Safety sign used with a separated supplementary safety information text panel which includes a hazard severity panel. 6.5 Combination product safety label not incorporating a hazard severity panel. 6.6 Combination product safety label incorporating a hazard severity panel. 8 6.7 Multiple product safety label not incorporating a hazard severity panel 9 6.8 Multiple product safety label incorporating a hazard severity panel. 10 Annex A (informative) Guidelines for increasing the recognition of product safety labelcomponents. .11 Annex B (informative) Translation of signal words. ..13 Annex C (informative) Examples of product safety labels.. .14 Annex D (informative) Product safety label development considerations.. 16 Annex E (informative) References from colour order systems for signal colour orange. 18 Bibliography 19 @ IS0 2016 - All rights reserved iii IS0 3864-2:2016(E) Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (IsO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through Iso technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with IsO, also take part in the work. IsocollaboratescloselywiththeInternationalElectrotechnicalCommission(IEC)onallmattersof electrotechnical standardization. The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance are described in the IsO/IEC Directives, Part 1. In particular the different approval criteria needed for the different types of Iso documents should be noted. This document was drafted in accordance with the editorial rules of the ISo/IEc Directives, Part 2 (see Www.iso.org/directives). Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISo shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Details of any patent rights identified during the development of the document will be in the Introduction and/or on the ISo list of patent declarations received (see www.iso.org/patents). Any trade name used in this document is information given for the convenience of users and does not constitute an endorsement, For an explanation on the meaning of isO specific terms and expressions related to conformity assessment, as well as information about IsO's adherence to the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles in the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) see the following URL: www.iso.org/iso/forewordhtml. The committee responsible for this document is ISO/TC 145, Graphical symbols, Subcommittee SC 2, Safety identification, signs, shapes, symbols and colours This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (Is0 3864-2:2004), which has been technically revised. It also incorporates the Amendment IS0 3864-2:2004/Amd 1:2011. A list of all the parts in the IS0 3864 series can be found on the IS0 website. iv