Fire Safety Signs
Clear And Durable Fire Safety Signs Designed To Guide, Warn, And Protect In Emergencies.
Fire Safety Signs – Professional Printing and Installation
Fire safety signs are critically important for any building. The threat of a fire can be frightening for both occupants and property owners, making proper preparation essential. One of the most important steps in fire preparedness is having clear, compliant fire safety signage in place.
In the unfortunate event that a fire occurs, well-placed fire safety signs help guide occupants to evacuate safely and allow emergency personnel to respond quickly and efficiently.
What Are Fire Safety Signs?
During an emergency situation injury to people and damage to property is prevented by quick action. You don’t want to have to be figuring out complex actions carry out if there’s a fire burning. That’s why fire safety signs convey short, quickly read and understood pieces of information like:
- Where the fire extinguisher is located
- Where the emergency exits are
- Where the sprinkler system is and how it works
- Where the smoke detectors are
- Where the fire hose and fire pump room is
As you can see, these signs are important for the general public, employees, and emergency responders—such as firefighters—who may be unfamiliar with a particular building.
Beyond being a best practice, fire safety signs are often required by housing, fire safety, and other local regulatory standards. To remain compliant and ensure safety, it is essential to display the correct signage in the proper locations throughout the building.
Types of Fire Safety Signs
Most buildings require a lot of different kinds of fire safety signs to be posted in places relevant to putting out and evacuating from fires. What kind you’ll be required to post depend on how your property is registered with HPD. Some of these signs include:
Fire Extinguisher
These often feature a directional arrow for even easier navigation.
Sprinkler System
Most buildings are also required to have a sprinkler system to curb fires more quickly. These signs can let people know if that system is automatic, have an automatic shut off, if there is no sprinkler system, and more.
Emergency Exits
Posted on the doors of emergency exits, these signs keep people from exiting unless it’s an emergency like a fire and/or inform them of an alarm that will go off if it’s opened.
Fire Hose/Fire Pump Room
These let emergency personnel know where a fire hose is to begin addressing the fire and where the sprinkler system’s water supply is, respectively.
Fire Door
Certain doors between building floors are usually kept closed when not being moved through, to prevent the rapid spread of fire. This sign keeps people from propping it open.
Smoke Detector
This sign assures room occupants that smoke detectors are installed and in good working order in designated locations.
Where Fire Safety Signs are Used?
Government
Government buildings display HPD-compliant fire safety signs to inform employees and visitors about emergency procedures and evacuation rules.
Corporate
In offices and professional settings, FDNY-compliant signage ensures employees, clients, and visitors are aware of fire safety precautions.
Health Care
Hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities use clear fire safety and warning signs to protect patients, staff, and visitors from hazards.
Financial
Banks and financial offices install custom HPD safety signs for quick evacuation of employees and clients during emergencies.
Universities
Educational institutions use highly visible disaster response and evacuation signs in key areas for fast, organized evacuations.
Food Service
Restaurants, cafes, and catering facilities display prominent fire safety signage to prevent mishaps and ensure customer and staff safety.
Retail
Shops and malls use fire safety signs to guide customers and staff to emergency exits and safety equipment locations.
Hospitality
Hotels and resorts use multilingual fire safety signs to instruct guests on evacuation routes and safety procedures.
Manufacturing
Factories and warehouses place clear fire safety signage near equipment, exits, and hazardous areas to protect workers.
Public Transport
Airports, bus terminals, and train stations display fire safety signs to guide large crowds to safety quickly.
Residential Buildings
Apartment complexes use HPD and FDNY-compliant signs to mark exits, fire equipment, and evacuation routes for residents.
Event Venues
Concert halls, stadiums, and theaters install visible fire safety signage to direct large audiences during emergencies.
Why Fire Safety Signs are Important?
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) certifies commercial and residential buildings that meet strict safety requirements. An essential part of these requirements is proper signage, which helps occupants navigate buildings more easily and safely.
In addition to fire safety signs, HPD-required signage includes floor number signs, restroom signs, and maximum occupancy signs. Fire safety signage goes far beyond fire extinguisher labels—many signs commonly found throughout buildings provide critical guidance during evacuations and assist emergency responders in fire situations.
Signs Dealer can provide a complete range of fire safety signage to help keep occupants safe while ensuring your building remains compliant with applicable safety codes and regulations.
Material Options
Signs can be made from all kinds of materials, making them one of the most customizable and distinctive looking signs you can use in your buildings or other place of business. All that needs to occur is that the sign is placed off of the wall in some way.
Acrylic
This material acrylic can have the same crystal, glossy finish as glass for fire safety signs, but is much more lightweight and stable.
Aluminum
Aluminum is a high-yielding and easily custom-make material to create a durable, high-quality custom fire safety signs by combining cutting-edge technology with various methods.
Aluminum Composite
Aluminum composite material for fire safety signs provides the benefits of both aluminum and stable polyethylene cores that give additional rigidity and lightness.
Styrene
Styrene material is a lightweight plastic that can be both flexible and stable, it has perfect durability and customization qualities for fire safety signs.
Plastic (PVC)
Plastic or acrylic material is used to make custom fire safety signs by reason of their easy customization qualities and qualified and engaging appearance.
What Features Do Fire Safety Signs Have?
Since it’s so critical that fire safety signs be easily recognizable and understood, even in a scary and unfamiliar situation like during a fire, their design, color scheme, and shape are fairly standard.
Most are monochromatic red, black, or white, with a maximum of three or four lines of text in one of those colors that contrasts the background.
Most of our signs can be customized when it comes to shape and size, as well. Some of the most common dimensions used for HPD signs are:
- 3”x12”
- 3”x6”
- 8.5”x11”
- 10”x11”
- 10”x10”
For fire safety and other types of HPD signs, it’s important to make sure it’s still code compliant with any customizations included. Still, we can create whatever sign dimension you need.
How To Get Fire Safety Signs?
Knowing exactly where to put the multiple kinds of fire safety signs you’ll need as a property owner, as well as which ones to get in the first place, can be a challenge. To help, we provide permit filing and installation services to ensure that you have the right signs installed in the right places according to HPD, FDNY, and any other safety regulatory agencies.
If your building isn’t registered as an HPD property and you’d like it to be, you can register it on the NYC. gov website here. We can provide whatever signs they require you display.
These are some of the many different fire safety signs that are currently available here at Signs NYC check our online catalog, and all of them can be very important for protecting your building, making sure that your property is up to fire safety standards, and installing all of the HPD signs – and other fire door safety signs – that you are required to have in your building.
About Signs Dealer
Signs Dealer is your trusted source for high-quality fire safety signs designed to protect lives and property. With extensive industry experience and a commitment to superior craftsmanship, we produce custom signage that clearly communicates critical safety information and strengthens emergency preparedness. Whether you need exit signs, fire alarm signage, or hazard warnings, Signs Dealer delivers solutions that prioritize safety and regulatory compliance.
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