Reference

Inspection tagging has drifted into folk practice, and most of the tags on a typical rack satisfy no federal requirement at all. This guide sorts them equipment by equipment into required, evidence of a required inspection, and pure convention, then gives the hard specification that the tags OSHA does compel by name have to meet.

Exit signage is one of the few places where general industry and construction genuinely diverge on the specification of the same object, and the divergence runs the opposite way to what most people expect. This guide sets 1910.37(b) and 1926.200(d) side by side, adds the NFPA 101 compliance route, and walks a mixed-site audit.

OSHA-format and ANSI Z535 signs are both legally acceptable, for entirely different reasons. This guide compares the two sign faces element by element, explains what an ANSI compliant vendor badge does not tell a buyer, and gives five questions for choosing a system, with migration staging and purchase specification language.

OSHA sets safety sign rules in two separate places, and the ANSI editions it incorporates run two to three revisions behind what vendors sell as current. This guide decodes the three sign classes at 1910.145(c), the specified colors, accident prevention tags, and the construction table at 1926.200, plus exit and aisle marking duties.