Citation

Collins BL, Lerner ND, Pierman BC. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 1981; 25(1): 552.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1071181381025001141

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Written signs are commonly used in industrial sites to provide hazard warnings and safety information. The use of safety symbols and pictorials may increase the effectiveness of safety communication, however, because such signs are language-free, and because they can be recognized more rapidly and accurately even under some conditions of interference and distraction. The effectiveness of safety symbols critically depends upon the selection of symbolic images which are readily understandable to the intended audience.

Language: en