ANSI NEMA Z535.1-2017 Safety Colors.pdf

1、NEMA Standards PublicationNational Electrical Manufacturers AssociationANSI Z535.1-2017Safety ColorsANSI Z535.1-2017 American National Standard for Safety Colors Secretariat: National Electrical Manufacturers Association Approved: October 20, 2017 American National Standards Institute, Inc. 2017 Nat

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20、out prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America ANSI Z535.1-2017 Page ii 2017 National Electrical Manufacturers Association (PAT, I cant get the footers to line up with the even pages without messing up the flow of the document) ANSI Z535.1-2017 Page iii 2017 N

21、ational Electrical Manufacturers Association CONTENTS Foreword . vii 1 Introduction 1 2 Scope and Purpose 2.1 Scope 1 2.2 Purpose . 1 2.2.1 Existing American National Standards 1 3 Application and Exceptions 1 3.1 Applications . 1 3.2 Exceptions . 2 4 Explanation of Terminology . 2 4.1 Boundary . 2

22、4.2 Chroma . 2 4.3 Chromaticity Coordinates 2 4.4 CIE Chromaticity Diagram 2 4.5 CIE Colorimetric System . 2 4.6 CIE Commission Internationale de lclairage 2 4.7 CIE Illuminant C 2 4.8 CIE Standard Illuminant D65 3 4.9 CIE Standard Colorimetric Observer (2 degree) . 3 4.10 Hue . 3 4.11 Munsell Color

23、 Order System . 3 4.12 Normal Vision 3 4.13 Tristimulus Values . 3 4.14 Value . 3 5 Specifications 3 5.1 General . 3 5.2 Testing Specifications . 3 6 Safety Colors 4 6.1 Safety Colors Ordinary Surface Colors 4 6.2 Safety White 4 6.3 Safety Black 4 6.4 Daylight Fluorescent Safety Colors . 4 7 Optimum

24、 Visibility 4 ANSI Z535.1-2017 Page iv 2017 National Electrical Manufacturers Association (PAT, I cant get the footers to line up with the even pages without messing up the flow of the document) 8 Surface Finish 5 9 External Illumination of Safety Signs . 5 10 Safety Color Stability 5 11 Normative R

25、eferences . 5 FIGURES 1 Section of the CIE 1932 Chromaticity Diagram showing green, yellow-to-red region and Chromaticity specification boundaries for ANSI Z535.1 fluorescent safety colors . 13 2 CIE 1931 Chromaticity Diagram Color Regions for ANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors 14 3 Enlarged view of the CIE

26、1931 Chromaticity Diagram showing neutral limits for Safety White and Safety Black . 15 A-1 Enlarged view of the CIE 1931 Chromaticity Diagram showing the color region for SafetyYellow . 17 B-1 ANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors using Illuminant C and ISO 3864-4 Safety Colors using StandardIlluminant D65 18

27、E-1 Munsell Hue Circle . 24 E-2 Munsell Hue, Value, Chroma . 25 TABLES 1 Appendix A to 172 Office of Hazardous Materials Transportation Color Tolerance Charts and Tables. Specifications for Color Tolerance Charts for use with Labels and Placards Surfaced with Paint, Lacquer, Enamel, Plastic, other O

28、paque Coatings, or Ink 7 2 Specifications for Color Tolerance Charts for use with Labels and Placards Surfaced with Ink . 8 3 Specifications for colors for use with labels printed on packaging surfaces . 11 4 Specifications for fluorescent safety colors. Recommended limits of fluorescent colors in t

29、erms of CIE Recommendations No. 39-2, 1983 for surface colors for visual signaling 11 5 (x, y) Chromaticity coordinates of the corners of the recommended limits for fluorescent safety colors specified in Table 4, in terms of the CIE 1931 Standard Colorimetric System, measured with 45/0 geometry, and

30、 evaluation with CIE Standard Illuminant D65 12 6 Specifications for Safety White and Safety Black . 16 C-1 ANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors Cross-reference Table . 19 C-2 ISO Safety Colors Cross-reference Table . 20 D-1 ISO 3864-4, Table E.1, Ordinary materials: examples for object colors that fall within

31、 thespecified chromaticity coordinates and luminance factor for the color region 21 D-2 ISO 3864-2:2016, ISO Reference for Safety Orange . 23 ANSI Z535.1-2017 Page v 2017 National Electrical Manufacturers Association ANNEXES A Enlarged view of the CIE Chromaticity Diagram showing the color region fo

32、r Safety Yellow 17 B ANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors using illuminant C and ISO Safety Colors using standard Illuminant D65 . 18 C ANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors Cross-reference Table 19 C ISO Safety Colors Cross-reference Table . 20 D ISO 3864-4, (Annex E) 21 E Munsell Hue Circle 24 E Munsell Hue, Value, Chro

33、ma for Safety Red 25 F Informative References . 26 ANSI Z535.1-2017 Page vi 2017 National Electrical Manufacturers Association (PAT, I cant get the footers to line up with the even pages without messing up the flow of the document) ANSI Z535.1-2017 Page vii 2017 National Electrical Manufacturers Ass

34、ociation Foreword In 1979, the ANSI Z53 Committee on Safety Colors was combined with the ANSI Z35 Committee on Safety Signs to form the ANSI Z535 Committee on Safety Signs and Colors. The Z535 Committee has the following scope: To develop standards for the design, application, and use of signs, colo

35、rs, and symbols intended to identify and warn against specific hazards and for other accident prevention purposes. While the basic mission and fundamental purpose of the ANSI Z535 Committee is to develop, refine, and promote a single, uniform graphic system used for communicating safety and accident

36、 prevention information, the Z535 Committee recognizes that this information can also be effectively communicated using other graphic systems. The Z535 Committee created subcommittees to update the Z53 and Z35 standards and to write new standards. To date, the following six standards comprise the AN

37、SI Z535 series: ANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors ANSI Z53.1-1979 was updated and combined with this standard in 1991 ANSI Z535.2 Environmental and Facility Safety Signs ANSI Z35.1-1972 and Z35.4-1972 were updated and combined into this standard in 1991 ANSI Z535.3 Criteria for Safety Symbols new in 1991 AN

38、SI Z535.4 Product Safety Signs and Labels new in 1991 ANSI Z535.5 Safety Tags and Barricade Tapes (for Temporary Hazards) ANSI Z35.2-1974 was updated and combined with this standard in 1991 ANSI Z535.6 Product Safety Information in Product Manuals, Instructions, and Other Collateral Materials new in

39、 2006 Together, these six standards contain the information needed to specify formats, colors, and symbols for safety signs used in environmental and facility applications, product and product literature applications, and temporary safety tag and barricade tape applications. Published separately is

40、the ANSI Z535 Safety Color Chart. This chart gives the user a sample of each of the safety colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, and black. It also describes each colors ink formulation and closest PANTONE color. This ANSI Z535.1 standard was prepared by the Z535.1 Subcommittee on

41、Safety Colors. The foreword and all annexes are considered to be informative; the body is considered normative. In the vocabulary of writing standards, the word “informative” is meant to convey that the content presented is for informational purposes only and is not considered to be mandatory in nat

42、ure. The word “normative“ is meant to convey that the content is considered to be mandatory or prescriptive. The (R2011) edition of this standard is the eighth revision of the American War Standard, developed at the request of the War Department and approved by the American Standards Association (AS

43、A) on July 16, 1945. The ASA was reconstituted as the USA Standards Institute (USASI) in August 1966, and as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in October 1969. Peacetime work on revising the American War Standard containing the Safety Color Code began in 1946 under committee procedure

44、s of the ASA, with the National Safety Council serving as a sponsor of the project. The Sectional Committee on the ANSI Z535.1-2017 Page viii 2017 National Electrical Manufacturers Association (PAT, I cant get the footers to line up with the even pages without messing up the flow of the document) Sa

45、fety Color Code, Z53, reviewed the War Standard and enlarged its application to include the colors orange, blue, and purple. The committee also approved standard definitions and limits for the colors. The revised standard was approved by the ASA on September 11, 1953. In the 1971 revision, the Z53 c

46、ommittee deleted the color blue and modified the application of the color yellow, due to conflicts with other American National Standards. In the fourth revision, a significant step forward was made toward increased safety through uniformity in safety color coding. The safety colors formerly used in

47、 this standard were combined and adjusted to give the best feasible discrimination for observers with either normal or color-deficient (colorblind) vision. For the first time, safety color tolerance charts were available for use with this standard (see Section 8, Reference 17). Each color tolerance

48、chart shows the standard color and six color tolerances illustrating acceptable ranges in hue, value (lightness), and chroma (saturation). Each color tolerance chart also lists the Munsell notation and equivalent Commission Internationale de LEclairage (CIE) specifications (x, y, Y) for each standar

49、d color and tolerance sample. The colors brown, blue, and gray were added, and Table 1 was expanded to include the same information on most of the levels of the Universal Color Language (UCL) for the tolerance samples as for the standard or central sample of each Safety Color. Sections 1 to 6 of the present standard contains material similar to the fourth revision (Z53.1, 1979). The intent of the fifth revision (1991) of the safety color standard was to provide a serie