What is Automated Safety Signage?
Automated safety signage is health and safety messaging and signage that change based on environmental conditions, real-time circumstances and events. Automated safety signage is becoming increasingly popular in industries such as manufacturing, logistics and automotive to improve warehouse health and safety and HSE compliance.
The Benefits of Automated Safety Signage
Real-Time Hazard Awareness- Alert workers instantly of upcoming hazards with up to date health and safety signs with the right sign, at the right time. Ensuring up-to-date safety messaging and protocols to keep employees safe.
Adaptable Messaging- Adapt warehouse safety signage depending on different environmental conditions and on-site circumstances such as shutter doors being open, or a forklift truck coming onto the warehouse floor.
Cost savings- Real-time safety signage based on environmental conditions and circumstances also saves time and money repainting floor markings when wanting to change warehouse safety signs.
How to Automate your Warehouse Safety Signage
Using high powered gobo projectors is a great way to create an automated safety signage system in your warehouse. With the help of a qualified electrician, our gobo projectors can be adapted in order to automate your projected signage. But how can you make your warehouse safety signage automated?
Timers- Adding timer switches in order to trigger safety signs during specific working hours, such as if there is a specific time pedestrians are in the area.
Sensors- Adding sensors means you can trigger projected signage depending on a variety of environmental factors such as, a door opening, pedestrian or forklift truck approaching or a light being switched on. There are a range of sensors that could be integrated into your warehouse safety signage solutions including: occupancy sensors, PIR, microwave sensors and proximity sensors. To find out more about the types of sensors you can use with projected signage, check out our blog [LINK].
Integration with Existing Safety Systems- Integrate your gobo projector with existing safety systems such as fire alarms, when the alarm is triggered, the safety sign will be illuminated, perfect for way finding signage in emergencies.
Smart Switches- Turn on projectors using mobile devices and smart switches, ensuring they are only activated when needed such as when a worker is on approach to the area. You can also create automation schedules to have the safety signage projected at specific times of the day.
Why Choose Projected Signage?
Adaptability- Using gobo projectors for your safety signage gives you the flexibility to automate your signage solutions by using timers, sensors or even smart switches. Alongside this, projected signage is more flexible and adaptable than traditional signs and painted floor markings when it comes to ever changing warehouse layouts and operations. If you need to report a new hazard, you can simply replace the gobo in your projector, or move your gobo projector to a new location in the warehouse, saving costs of repainting safety markings and business downtime to repaint.
Visibility- Automated projected signage allows for highly visible safety signs that illuminate at the right time due to environmental conditions, drawing workers attention to the current safety messages and health and safety protocols. Our high powered gobo projectors are designed for ensuring to be eye catching and not causing workers to go ‘sign blind’.
Durability-Unlike traditional health and safety signs and painted floor markings, projected signs do not fade and degrade in busy areas from forklift trucks and high foot traffic, ensuring your safety messages will be seen, HSE compliant, and saves business downtime to repaint.
Lifespan- Our powerful gobo projectors have up to 50,000 hours of lamp life-that’s around 5 years of constant projection. Automating your projected signage not only ensures the correct safety signs are shown at the right time, but could even prolong the lifespan of your gobo projector, giving you longer than 5 years of low maintenance safety signage.
Automated Safety Signage used in Leading Renewable Energy Facility
At Projected Image, our projection experts help clients create bespoke warehouse safety signage solutions tailored to their needs.
Our client is a leading manufacturer in the renewable energy sector who were looking to improve their warehouse health and safety signage by changing safety signage depending on environmental conditions.
We worked closely with them and an electrical contractor to create a bespoke safety signage solution that could be incorporated with sensors in order to activate forklift safety signs when a roller door opens.
Utilising gobo projection within their warehouse safety signage system allowed the client to create a seamless automated signage system by wiring the projectors up with top of the range PIR sensors, ensuring that the correct safety sign was shown at the right time. This keeps health and safety protocols clear to both forklift and pedestrian traffic and allows operations to run smoothly and safely. To learn more about this project and how our client automated their projected signage, check out the case study.
If you are aiming to improve warehouse health and safety with a solution that can be incorporated into a seamless automated signage system, then projected safety signage could be for you. To learn more about the benefits of projected safety signage, check out our blog. Alternatively, contact our team of projection experts who can help create a fully bespoke projected safety signage solution suited to your business needs.