What progress has been made towards safety label standards harmonization?
Clarion’s President, Geoffrey Peckham, has been a member of the ANSI Z535 Committee since 1992 and, since 1996, Chair and Head of the Delegation for the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the ISO committee responsible for the ISO 3864 – the primary international standard pertaining to safety labels, signs, colors and symbols. His overall goal in these positions has been to bring about a degree of harmonization between the U.S. and international product safety labeling standards so that manufacturers have the ability to choose appropriate safety label formats for the products they sell to both U.S. and international markets. The effort towards harmonization is ongoing with advances being made in every revision of the standards. At this point in time not every format meets both U.S. and ISO standards. Thus, it is necessary to understand more about the ANSI Z535.4 and ISO 3864 standards so you can make appropriate decisions regarding the overall choice of which formats to use for your produ
Clarion’s President, Geoffrey Peckham, has been a member of the ANSI Z535 Committee since 1992, chair of the ANSI Z535.1 Standards for Safety Colors from 1994-2008, and chair of the ANSI Z535.2 Standard for Environmental and Facility Safety Signs since 2008. Likewise, Mr. Peckham has chaired and headed the delegation for ANSI to the international (ISO) standards in this field since 1996. As Chair and Head of the Delegation for the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the ISO/TC 145 committee responsible for standards related to safety labels, signs, colors and symbols, Clarion has played a pivotal role in writing and revising the principle standards for both the U.S. and global standards in our respective field. The overall goal of our involvement in the standards has been to bring about a degree of harmonization between the U.S. and international safety marking standards. Such progress allows manufacturers to have the ability to choose appropriate safety label formats for the products the
