Machinery & Equipment Safety Labels

A machine carries hazards that are obvious to the person who commissioned it and invisible to everybody since. An equipment safety label is what closes that gap: it puts the warning on the machine, in the position where somebody is about to do the thing the warning is about.

What we make. Warning, danger, caution and notice labels in the ISO 7010 format. Equipment warning labels for specific hazards: entanglement, crush, shear, hot surface, automatic start, stored energy. Industrial warning labels for the area around the machine. Machine warning labels for guards, access panels and inspection hatches. Machinery labels carrying equipment identification numbers alongside the hazard.

Where the label goes is most of whether it works. A warning read after the guard is open has been read too late. Labels go at the point of access rather than on the machine generally: on the guard itself, on the hatch that has to be lifted, beside the isolator, at the in-running nip rather than on the frame above it. Tell us which openings and access points the hazard sits behind and we will set out one label per point rather than one label per machine.

Labels that carry the machine's own data. Most machinery labels are not generic. They carry the asset number, the rated figures, the isolation point reference or the procedure step that belongs to that specific machine. Send the equipment schedule and we print straight from it, so each label arrives matching the machine it belongs to rather than being written on afterwards.

Replacing labels that have gone. The commonest reason to order these is not a new machine. It is an older one whose original labels have been solvent-wiped, sun-bleached or scraped off, leaving a machine that is no longer marked for the people now working on it. Photograph what is left, or send the machine and model, and we will reproduce the set. A label that has faded to unreadable is doing the same job as no label at all.

Stickers, or plates. A machinery labels sticker in durable vinyl suits most surfaces and is what the majority of this work is. Where the surface is hot, heavily abraded, or solvent-washed daily, the same warning is better produced as an engraved or etched plate that is mechanically fixed. Tell us what the surface sees and we will say which one will still be there in five years.

On the machine, or around it. Labels go on the equipment. Where the warning belongs to the space rather than to the machine, a walkway, a cell, a restricted area, that is a rigid sign rather than a label, and it wants to be readable from further away.

Multilingual. A machinery labels sticker is only doing its job if the person standing in front of the machine can read it. We set out the same warning in two or more languages on one label, with the pictogram carrying the meaning for anyone who reads neither.

Materials. Durable vinyl resistant to oils, chemicals, UV and abrasion, which is what a label fixed to a machine actually faces: solvent wipe-downs, swarf, and hands. Indoor and outdoor. Custom sizes, colours, company logos and equipment identification numbers throughout.

Artwork. Our in-house design team creates artwork, redraws pictograms and sets out multilingual layouts. No print-ready file is needed to start.

Produced to the same ISO 7010 pictogram set as the rest of a site's marking, so a machine and the area around it carry one scheme. Supplied to equipment manufacturers, shipyards, process plant and industrial facilities across Singapore. Also produced as rigid industrial safety and warning signs for the area rather than the machine, with lockout tagout tags for the isolation itself and asset and equipment tags where the machine also needs a permanent identification plate.