Templates / Site set-up and welfare
Site signage check
Checklist · Every week
Checks safety signs are where the risks are, in good condition, and still right for how the site is now.
Use it in Sitro: add it to a project and fill it on a phone, free for 14 days.
The law and guidance behind it
- Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996
- HSE L64, Safety signs and signals
The questions
Where and when
- Area or location
- Date
Signs
- Entrance signs: PPE, site rules, visitors report to the office
- Hazard signs where a risk can't be avoided (overhead work, excavations, hot works, noise)
- Fire exit, fire point and assembly point signs, visible and in place
- Traffic signs: speed limit, one-way, pedestrian routes
- First aid and emergency contact signs
- Signs clean, readable, not faded or hidden, and none out of date
Actions
- Anything found that needs putting right (write "None" if nothing)
- Action taken or who it was passed to
Sign-off
- Checked by
- Date and time
- Signature
A template to adapt to your site, not legal advice.