How well do you know your safety signs?

Dave Scuse
Member - 1 post

100%

David Sharp - Workplace Law Network
Online advisor - 127 posts

90% for me, but only after a couple of second guesses in some places. I really can't believe the sign for "Don't switch off"!!!

Anne McAllister
Member - 151 posts

90% !!!

David Price
Member - 84 posts

Only 90% how diapointing is that? However of course it all depends on what environment you work in as some safety signs are not in use in every location.

I think Workplace Law Network should send this short test out on a CD Rom to all its members, This will not only highlight the need for knowing safety signs but will get WLN some advertising at the same time.

janet burton
Member - 63 posts

90% - but five of those I got right, it was my 2nd attempt, so I would only give myself 65%.

Jessica Rosenthal
Member - 1 post

95% on the first attempt! I don't even work in safety!

Phill S
Member - 49 posts

100%!

Mike Kane
Member - 23 posts

100%, but not without a little bit of pondering on a couple of them !!

Mike Kane
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Dave Gill
Member - 17 posts

95% No. 7 got me 'mind the step'.

Martin Stock
Member - 14 posts

90% and 3 of those were second guesses. Some of those signs are really ambiguous! I agree about the don't turn off sign and the 'mind the step'?

William Love
Member - 5 posts

95% try harder next time

Nick Durham
Member - 2 posts

13 correct on first choice, 7 correct on second choice. Not bad tho most i hadnt seen before (regularly used signs!!??) and i had to use common sense to figure them out. i'm sure that if i saw them in situ they'd be clearer to understand e.g. "low shelves".

Les Lane
Member - 49 posts

Scored 95% but needed 2 attempts at at least half. Guess we all need to be more aware of signs that we dont use everyday.

Andrew Walker
Member - 6 posts

Surely the answer given for #8 is incorrect. It is explosive or explosive material - not 'explosion'

Is the 'don't switch off' sign for real? :-)

Dee Candlin
Member - 1 post

Very interesting test - not sure I would have done so well without the multiple choice options - shows importance of words and pictures together. Thank you!

Malcolm Broadbent
Member - 1 post

Surprising and somewhat misleading.
Also, some signs, such as the laser, are somewhat specialised?

gordon bell
Member - 1 post

100% but putting my pedantic "safety" hat on, the sign you say indicates an "explosion" is actually used to warn of an "explosive substance". A sign warning of an explosion wouldn't be much use after the event. Do I win £5 ?

Marine Shah
Member - 1 post

I don't think you should count as a correct answer the ones I answered correctly only at second try. In case of danger you usually don't have a second chance!

Phil Lemon
Member - 50 posts

can not see the sighs
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Pauline Ohr
Member - 1 post

100% for me on second attempt (I got 89% first time with some second chances)but some of them are rather obscure and had to be guessed at.

David Jones
Member - 1 post

Testing and Training:
A really good quiz - well done!
I scored 95% - got one wrong!
It's always good to test on safety knowledge - the award-winning training website at www.CDM2007.org provides for fully tested modular on-line training on the new CDM 2007 Regulations and more.

david townsend
Member - 1 post

95% Thought I was in deep water at one point!

Mark Diaper
Member - 2 posts

Although I did pretty well, some I had to try twice and if I had language or learning difficulties I'm sure I would have struggled.

Graham Bentley MBIFM
Member - 5 posts

Some of the signs seem fairly uncommon, however a good test to take.

Nick Rampton
Member - 1 post

Scored 85% half I had not seen before, of those 3 did not match my logic one of which I have seen on several occasions at the roadside with the script "danger Ice" which was incorrect according to the quiz. This being the case Who is right?

Stephen Smith
Member - 12 posts

100%

Suzanne Davies
Member - 3 posts

Number 3 reminds me of what do you see when you look at an ink blot. All I can see is 2 people playing polo riding strange looking Dyson upright vac cleaners.
Failing that it's a teddy bear with horns on its head & human hands, fingers in ears. And I'm not alone a colleague sees ants playing football!
The signs certainly elucidate the need for accompanying text.

Peter Knopp
Member - 3 posts

Some of the signs in the test are obscure, but I got 18 correct!

Sue Smith
Member - 2 posts

90%

Emma McAuley
Member - 16 posts

Wow, I had never seen many of those signs!

Mary Wragg
Member - 1 post

I was surprised how many signs I failed to recognise! I would not consider an 80% score enough, which just shows that we all depend on the words that go with the signs.

Marcella Martin
Member - 1 post

only 80%!!! does anyone agree that all safe pass classes should be thought in just english, since we need the text (english) on our Safety Signs?

Graham Ferris
Member - 2 posts

Good quiz only got 75% because of the second chances - some were just silly without the accompanying english. And don't switch off! what's that about? the switch was already off......

Mark Shuttleworth
Member - 57 posts

95% with quite a few second guesses but many are far too ambiguous. I too thought it was explosive materials, if it did actually mean explosion i'm not convinced you'd need the sign, or if you'd have anywhere to hang it!
The noise one Suzanne, definitely looked like two ants fighting over a peanut!
Some signs really should be text only.