The Safety and Power of Color Standards
A Visual Workplace and Color Webinar
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The Safety and Power of Color Standards
Based on Lean and 5S principles, this webinar demonstrates how a "visual workplace" uses color and visual cues to reduce waste, speed up information processing and improve overall facility safety.
Key Takeaways:
- The 5-Second Rule: The ability for a worker to understand the status of an area within 5 seconds of looking at it.
- Color Standards: Adopting a consistent facility-wide color code (e.g., Blue for raw materials, Red for defects/scraps).
- Sustaining 5S: Using shadow boards and floor tape to ensure tools and equipment always return to their proper place.
- Language
- English
- Length
- 35:05
Video Transcript
[00:00:02] - Hello all.
[00:00:02] - Good afternoon.
[00:00:02] - Welcome to Brady's webinar series.
[00:00:02] - Today we're going to be talking about safety and the power of color and the standards that go around color for compliance and visual workplace safety.
[00:00:14] - I'm Nicole Nelson.
[00:00:14] - I'm a global product manager here at Brady.
[00:00:14] - I handle full color solutions for Brady and also our inkjet systems.
[00:00:20] - So we're going to talk about five areas today.
[00:00:20] - One we're gonna just, you know, kind of ground ourselves in the visual workplace and what that means for us.
[00:00:28] - Then we're going to do just kind of a fun dive into color, right?
[00:00:34] - Like why does color matter?
[00:00:34] - How did we get to the standards that we have?
[00:00:41] - And then we will highlight some of the, you know, the most critical standards that we see in visual workplace and safety applications.
[00:00:48] - Then we can talk about you know what are the best applications and how do you go about doing the solution and then really how do you implement a system.
[00:00:55] - So with that we're going to start you know as you can see here there's a very big difference for users when you see something in black and white in a very monochrome environment and now all of a sudden you see those pops of color.
[00:01:08] - You know you can see the yellow for you know warning.
[00:01:14] - You've got your floor tape, you know, really designating to people perhaps where, you know, your walkway is, where your safety areas are.
[00:01:21] - So, these are really critical areas to, you know, help the user identify what is around them.
[00:01:27] - I just think this is a great visual on, you know, how how color really helps with safety and visual cues.
[00:01:35] - All right, so what is the 5-second rule?
[00:01:42] - There is actually something that came out of lean manufacturing 5S and that whole methodology around, you know, Toyota production systems quite a while ago and it's literally a 5-second rule, right?
[00:01:53] - Like a worker must be able to look and in 5 seconds determine what they're looking at.
[00:01:59] - Is there a hazard?
[00:01:59] - Do I need to stop?
[00:01:59] - What do I need to do?
[00:02:05] - That includes, you know, zone boundaries, machine status, PPE, any requirements that you have.
[00:02:12] - And then you know, typically they think if it takes longer than 5 seconds for that, you probably should reook at that that system, right?
[00:02:17] - That process, that's that sign, that cue.
[00:02:25] - Is there something that you can do to quickly identify that situation for a user?
[00:02:25] - That's kind of like a good rule of thumb for a facility and safety.
[00:02:31] - Okay.
[00:02:37] - So, how does color help?
[00:02:37] - I think you know we can look at some of these signs here and immediately you know what they are just based on color or the shape.
[00:02:43] - So speed, right?
[00:02:49] - So, you know, before you even read what it says on that sign, you know, that's a stop sign, right?
[00:02:49] - So, you know, it's got quick comprehension for a user.
[00:02:56] - It reduces errors very quickly.
[00:02:56] - Especially if you're thinking about like high stress situations, and dangerous situations, you really absolutely want to reduce any errors that you have there.
[00:03:08] - And then like language barriers, right?
[00:03:08] - Like I can go in any airport in the world and look at that in you know that blue sign and I'm kind of know that that's the information booth right so I'm going to get some information right there and I can also exit with that green sign so you know you start to develop these global standards that we as humans just automatically can identify with and it creates you know that that understanding very quickly across different workforces.
[00:03:38] - Okay.
[00:03:38] - So what's the history, right?
[00:03:38] - Like why where how did we get here?
[00:03:38] - So in the early 1900s there were plant specifications and you know there was everybody kind of did it a little differently.
[00:03:52] - It caused a lot of confusion in the history of you know industry and all of that and so you know there was a lot of people moving from factory to factory and then they would get confused.
[00:03:57] - So in the 1970s ANIE and OSHA really came together and started putting some standards together regarding you know red for danger, yellow caution, different pipe codes.
[00:04:12] - So you started to see in the 1970s that come forward with compliance across companies so that we were a little more unified and it was you know a safer for users.
[00:04:24] - And then in the 2000s you know and even now we continue to see additional adoption right so we started to see GHS GHS was a chemical standard and we started to see you know red borders and different iconography and now we have ISO symbols that are coming and those are also becoming color specific and we're going to go through some of those examples you know later on here I do have a whole next slide we're going to talk about some ADA compliance but you Now you can see here now that yellow all of a sudden becomes more valuable.
[00:04:55] - Before in the slide we just we had a yellow triangle and now you start to see oh that symbol means something to me as a user right?
[00:05:02] - Oh I see electricity I see you know hazardous waste things like that.
[00:05:10] - So you know all of these symbols start to mean something as well as we start to get more into that global harmonization.
[00:05:17] - So again five seconds I can see oh my gosh there's poison right?
[00:05:22] - So as a worker I have to use caution with this item.
[00:05:28] - So then let's just talk a little bit about you know ADA.
[00:05:28] - So when you start to talk about color you know you really do have to think about your entire workforce and there is going to be you know a section of the workforce that doesn't see color in all the ways you know and there's different different ways they see color.
[00:05:46] - So now there's actually been, you know, more amendments and different, you know, accessibility codes for how we use color in the workforce and with signage, right?
[00:05:53] - You don't just do yellow, you do now a border around the yellow so that you can see that definitive shape.
[00:06:00] - So you can start to see contrasts with different colors.
[00:06:07] - So you know, you do want to understand why we've gotten where we have as, you know, a general safety population, right?
[00:06:12] - You may have a shape, but until you've defined that shape, until you've added a symbol to the shape, and then potentially even you've added those context and those words, right?
[00:06:24] - So that you're clearly saying caution, danger in all the respective languages, right?
[00:06:24] - This gives very quick 5-second recognition to the workforce.
[00:06:30] - And it, you know, is very inclusive of, you know, all the needs of the workers.
[00:06:42] - Okay.
[00:06:42] - So, you know, just for fun, Brady, you know, we're going to use an example here.
[00:06:47] - So, it's just really interesting to see how did we get where we are?
[00:06:47] - And you know, people always ask about color.
[00:06:53] - When you have a standard, they're going to assign a color specification to that standard.
[00:06:53] - You are going to get an antsy red.
[00:07:00] - You are going to get an ISO blue.
[00:07:00] - What does that mean for us?
[00:07:00] - There's a lot of different ways to get there.
[00:07:06] - And Brady, you know, we're located in Milwaukee, so I put, you know, the Brewers example here for us all.
[00:07:13] - So early in the 1700s you we started to understand color as a science right using prisms and optics and how do you you know how do you get to color theory.
[00:07:20] - Then in the 1900s Albert Mel developed the Mel color tree which now you know is widely widely used for how we understand color.
[00:07:35] - You know, if you've ever gone to like, let's say you're picking colors for your house and you go to Sherman Williams or a lovely, you know, Home Depot somewhere like that, Menard's, and now you see the books of color, right?
[00:07:41] - So, you know, you start to understand like what all the ranges are for the color standard.
[00:07:49] - So, you know, that then became sort of that definitive, you know, what colors are available to us.
[00:07:54] - Then, as technology grew, we started to want to use colors in different ways.
[00:07:59] - We wanted to start printing with colors.
[00:08:07] - So in like 1906, we had now inks.
[00:08:07] - How are we going to use this ink and develop a color from that ink?
[00:08:14] - Right?
[00:08:14] - So you have, you remember back in elementary school, you did your color wheels, right?
[00:08:19] - So you've got cyan, magenta, yellow.
[00:08:19] - Those together will create different colors.
[00:08:25] - Now you can add black in.
[00:08:25] - You can have like pure black or you can add black to those and brighten them and make them more, you know, dense in color.
[00:08:32] - So now ink sets became CMK, right?
[00:08:32] - So and now we could start commercially processing.
[00:08:39] - We could do books, we could do magazines, we could do newspapers and color.
[00:08:44] - So now all of a sudden print world, you know, became alive for the use of color.
[00:08:44] - Then there was you know of course in 1927 in Germany they wanted to stand you know standardize more in that paint color space.
[00:08:58] - So when you start to come out of the CMK world and you start to go into specific ink sets you actually open up your your range of colors.
[00:09:05] - So now it's like okay well I want blue but how do I get to that standard of blue?
[00:09:12] - So they created the RAL system which is a number system as well.
[00:09:18] - And then finally like in the 1963 air you know area of time panone right and we talk about panone now all the time like what's that panone color you know we talk about what's the panone color of the year so it became very prevalent for us to understand panone we have different books for panones companies have specs around panone colors so you know you can see here you know for our brewer one we have you know 29 The 293C is our panone color, right?
[00:09:51] - And so you start to develop that, you know, some really iconic panone colors include the Tiffany's color, right?
[00:09:57] - So Tiffany has that same color globally.
[00:10:02] - Companies start to have panone colors.
[00:10:02] - Brady has a panone color.
[00:10:02] - You know, I'm guessing most companies have guidelines around what their colors, you know, are for their logos and things like that.
[00:10:09] - And then of course we then came into, oh my gosh, now we have computer screens and computer screens and all the processing around computers show color in a very different way.
[00:10:22] - So we had to do something called RGB, red, green, blue.
[00:10:27] - And so what are those, you know, digital outputs for color and how do we create standards around RGB values?
[00:10:35] - And then hex values were created and those are actually all digital.
[00:10:41] - So, you know, when you're, let's imagine now you're, you know, creating something on maybe you've got a phone and you're making a logo and now that phone has to translate.
[00:10:48] - You see it on the screen, but you want to print it onto your printer.
[00:10:54] - All those translations have to happen for that ink set to be able to print.
[00:11:01] - And what does that mean for us, right?
[00:11:01] - So, if you think about the color differences, every ink set and every value is going to have a range range that it can print.
[00:11:06] - And that's called the gamut.
[00:11:12] - And so, you know, if you think about like I'm printing a sign and I need antsy red, for example, what am I printing on?
[00:11:17] - What inks am I using?
[00:11:17] - Am I going to be able to hit that range of color that I am looking for?
[00:11:24] - And so typically what a lot of standards will do is they will provide you know a a target range but then you know provide a delta a change a value that you know if you get close to it is you know completely acceptable for that range.
[00:11:44] - So color order is called you know how do you measure and and organize color then hue will also affect it right what family is it what is that color what is the hue that's how we call you know like is it in the red family is it you know where is it on this chart and then value right so now we get into lightness and darkness tint or shade white or black like how what you know how light is that color how you know how dark is that color?
[00:12:15] - You get into pastels in that case or you know different you know different kinds of you you can get like a steel blue for example, right?
[00:12:20] - So how does the light affect and also you know there's a lot of like how does the light around you affect that color?
[00:12:26] - You can be in a you know operational environment with a certain set of lights and then you walk to a front conference room and now you have natural light.
[00:12:39] - Your color could look different based on the lightness and the darkness around you as well.
[00:12:39] - And then obviously chroma has to do with how bright or how dull, right?
[00:12:46] - So that is literally like how much color is being put down.
[00:12:53] - Is it vivid?
[00:12:53] - You know, is it a dull color?
[00:12:53] - Like how much are you saturating the color?
[00:12:53] - So you know getting to that accuracy of color and how intense is that color?
[00:12:59] - Okay.
[00:13:06] - So now we're going to talk about some of the standards that use color.
[00:13:06] - Right.
[00:13:06] - So I think first and foremost we have ANIE, right? always top of mind for an organization that is has a you know great safety program is you are complying with your Yansy standards right and these are the visual standards for signs tags labels there are signal words it combines color it combines communication you know this really allows workers to understand like you know maybe I'm at a factory but now I'm going on site to a construction environment they're going to get that same information right no matter where if they're in one plant or another plant.
[00:13:37] - You know this becomes a very common s communication path for them and so they have definitely defined five diff distinct areas right we have danger which is red warning orange caution yellow.
[00:13:57] - So you know your risk becomes a little bit less you know as the colors change but you know it definitely gives you a okay well this is more informative versus oh my gosh this is like critical a danger area.
[00:14:10] - So, you know, really allows that worker to identify what's happening.
[00:14:17] - Blue is typically, you know, general property maintenance, you know, notice, things like that.
[00:14:17] - Eyewash station becomes now safety, right?
[00:14:17] - So, where you're seeing green, right?
[00:14:24] - Green is like an eyewash station, first aid, you know, typically any health related items become that that green and then the icons match those colors then as well.
[00:14:31] - Typically, in a lot of cases, Okay.
[00:14:36] - And then we have pipe markers.
[00:14:42] - Pipe markers also have standards, right?
[00:14:42] - So when we talk about, you know, which line and what does that look like and is it water which direction is it going?
[00:14:48] - So then they said, okay, we definitely need some standards around, you know, the piping that's in our systems and how we're going to flow rate through the facilities.
[00:15:01] - And so there was a lot of pipe marking standards that then came out where you know red you know where it has to do with the fire you know extinguishing system green becomes water things like that.
[00:15:07] - So you know really clear identification from plant to plant like let's say your maintenance team is going to different facilities you know it's very clear for them to see that standardization then that happens.
[00:15:27] - OSHA also came in and said let's make sure that we have some guidelines as well.
[00:15:32] - This was you know mandated in occupational safety and health administrations.
[00:15:37] - We got the OSHA we have the 29 CFR that drives a lot of compliance right visual clues workplace lockout tagout caution areas.
[00:15:49] - So you know are you doing you know doing your physical hazards on your equipment and your gear for your employees appropriately.
[00:15:55] - So red obviously emergency kind of shutdown areas, fire protection gear, flammable items and then yellow becomes then more that caution place, right?
[00:16:07] - So kind of mirrored a little bit after the ANIE standards but you know nonetheless critical as well that that is something a company also wants to make sure that they are complying with.
[00:16:20] - So then we even have like you know electrical boundaries now we have the OSHA so we have the ANIE we have the OSHA and now we have arc flash labeling right arcs flash very specific to fire protection NFPA labeling safety risk assessment boundaries so now you're actually telling the user a lot of things about the equipment they're about to you know be part of or touch so how far do you need to be what PPE do you need to be wearing like really critical pieces of information start to put get put on these labels that protect workers and give them that information.
[00:16:54] - So you also have warning and danger signs so that you know immediately you know what that situation is with that piece of equipment.
[00:17:01] - You start to get different colors for zones and boundary radiuses.
[00:17:09] - Then you have categories right for the PPE.
[00:17:09] - So you start to see, you know, more sort of instructional labeling come out as it becomes more important on the different pieces of equipment and more specific to the user.
[00:17:25] - Another great example is GHS, right?
[00:17:25] - Where we are seeing now, you know, when when chemicals get shipped globally now, we're not just, you know, within our facility, they're actually moving between facilities.
[00:17:38] - They're being brought from a large container to small containers, you know, that secondary labeling.
[00:17:44] - So, we are, you know, seeing much more and more global use of GHS.
[00:17:44] - They're actually just coming out with drum specifications now around how large that label needs to be on a drum.
[00:17:52] - We also have BS5609 requirements which say, you know, if you're shipping that via water, your label needs to withstand, you know, there's like that sub bullet of compliance of, you know, if it falls in the water, it's still legible, you know, after three months.
[00:18:12] - So, you know, GHS starts to play more of a role and they have now the red diamond.
[00:18:18] - And again, back to that whole principle of you don't just do color.
[00:18:18] - You've got color, you have a visual visual designation within the color, and then you have all your wording that tells the operator who's specifically using that item what information they need to know for it.
[00:18:36] - HACCP now has a lot to do with, you know, I'm a specific industry.
[00:18:36] - I am food and beverage, right?
[00:18:42] - And now I need to control access points in my food and beverage facility.
[00:18:48] - So I've even gone a step further to say not only do I have ANIE and OSHA and you know all those requirements regarding my general facility but now I am you know working with areas and I need to prevent food you know crosscontamination for food and for you know other safety regulations for you know my employees but also my customers down the road right so there's a lot of color designations here for example red right raw meat blue seafood food, yellow poultry, you know, so they start to designate areas that say, you know, let's make sure that on this equipment we're only using these types of products.
[00:19:25] - And so, you know, that use of color again comes into play, you know, as you get more narrow and narrow into specific industries as well.
[00:19:38] - Lockout tag out.
[00:19:38] - Another you know co like another cascading sort of requirement from OSHA and anie is I'm at that point of locking out my machinery, right?
[00:19:50] - I am telling the person that's going to be touching this equipment what is happening on this equipment.
[00:19:57] - I am I am tagging it with what type of energy source it is.
[00:19:57] - I am telling the user, you know, I'm designating it with a color.
[00:20:02] - So they know is it pneumatic system?
[00:20:07] - Is it electrical disconnect?
[00:20:07] - So you know that point of labeling actually also becomes so critical to keeping that user safe and that you know the employee so they know you know what is happening in that area and they can use the appropriate procedures and systems around keeping themselves safe as well.
[00:20:31] - Okay.
[00:20:31] - So let's how do we implement right?
[00:20:31] - So you know we got all these requirements but now now what do we do right?
[00:20:36] - So there's different ways to come forward with a facility ID and 5S system.
[00:20:42] - So you know you can start to do things like you know label things around your facility as well beyond just I'm putting up a signage right I'm doing a sign but now I can also track my assets with color.
[00:20:56] - I can you know make sure that we're not mixing things that things are designated.
[00:20:56] - We got boundaries set.
[00:20:56] - We know where things go.
[00:21:04] - So, you know, not only are we being comprehensive about, you know, identifying the facility and doing our signage, but now we're also, you know, sorting and shining and keeping that area clean and, you know, effective for the users so they're not, you know, also putting themselves in danger by, you know, moving around in areas where they shouldn't be or looking for things where they shouldn't be.
[00:21:22] - Everything is put back where it needs to be and they've got a design designated place and and location for all of that.
[00:21:28] - There's also floor marking, right?
[00:21:35] - So, there's now options for heavy duty floor tape.
[00:21:35] - Like, you're not going to be stepping in this area.
[00:21:35] - This is a safety area.
[00:21:41] - Where is your where is your access?
[00:21:41] - Where are your walkways?
[00:21:41] - You know, where is it safe to go?
[00:21:47] - Where do users need, you know, that visibility for hightra walkways?
[00:21:47] - Where is the forklifts coming from?
[00:21:55] - So, you know, really important to designate other areas also with color and different ways to let your users know and your workers know what's safe in the facility.
[00:22:07] - There's now also really amazing tools like LED projectors out there, right?
[00:22:07] - So, you can cast different things.
[00:22:07] - You can change it a little bit.
[00:22:14] - You know, they say that, you know, people sometimes over time, like if you change a little bit about it, it'll direct people a little more quickly and they won't just sort of blindly go by it.
[00:22:20] - Okay, no, really, stop here.
[00:22:27] - So, you know, this allows you to be a little more dynamic in your communication to your employees on, you know, if you've got a walkway that's maybe changing or you're doing construction or, you know, you need to move your facility around, you can adapt to things like that.
[00:22:39] - If you're doing washdowns, etc. these are really great environments for something like a LED projector.
[00:22:52] - And then of course, like I need a sign, like how do I be compliant?
[00:22:52] - Like what what are ways that I can, you know, get a pipe marker?
[00:22:58] - There are a lot of different systems out there to help you.
[00:22:58] - You can, it's very simple to just go buy some preprinted signage.
[00:23:05] - You know, put it up where you need it.
[00:23:05] - You know, typically low volume, you know, if you don't have a lot, that makes a lot of sense.
[00:23:10] - But then, okay, well, maybe I'm changing it more in my facility.
[00:23:10] - I need to do more labeling or I want a little more dynamic labeling.
[00:23:16] - You know, maybe I want to go onsite.
[00:23:16] - I want to walk around with my printer and I want to print as I need.
[00:23:23] - Portable printing is a great solution there.
[00:23:23] - And now maybe, oh my gosh, I have a lot of different color changes and needs like, you know, I I want to be really flexible with my color.
[00:23:34] - There's also inkjet color solutions out there that allows you to change you know the color with every label if you want or you know change your dynamic information.
[00:23:46] - And then of course, let's say, ah, I need this to be outdoor or I need, you know, intense, you know, chemical resistance.
[00:23:46] - Thermal transfer really is the best for that situation, right?
[00:23:54] - You can print your pipe markers.
[00:23:54] - You could get all the colors that you need.
[00:24:00] - There's like the anti colors available, all of that.
[00:24:00] - So, you know, really easy to use.
[00:24:00] - You can, you know, edit it on the board on board like maybe you've got a station for your workers, your maintenance team to come up to, you know, or you can use it with software.
[00:24:12] - There's just a lot of different ways depending on how you and your facility want to use these systems.
[00:24:18] - All right, where would I start?
[00:24:24] - Okay, five steps, right?
[00:24:24] - Number one, you're going to audit, right?
[00:24:24] - You're going to walk around your facility.
[00:24:24] - You're going to really think about like where are my monochrome environments?
[00:24:32] - Where can I put signage?
[00:24:32] - You know, what makes sense?
[00:24:32] - Is it a 5-second rule?
[00:24:32] - Can I immediately identify, you know, what's happening in this area?
[00:24:38] - And then, you know, you're going to figure out your colors, right?
[00:24:44] - I'm complying with ANIE, so I need, you know, red, yellow, blue, you know, I need all the Anie colors so that I, you know, I'm officially following the the safety protocols.
[00:24:51] - Select the media then, right?
[00:24:57] - So, what is that label?
[00:24:57] - Is that going in a harsh washdown environment?
[00:24:57] - You're going to want a label that can resist washdown, right?
[00:25:03] - So, you know, think about what environment you're in.
[00:25:03] - Are you outside?
[00:25:03] - Are you in a dirty environment?
[00:25:10] - You know like where is that label need to go where does that ID need to go and then select appropriately of course there's just a huge amount of training involved right so educating your teams you know providing compliance in training and making sure that you're meeting those needs around you know being compliant lockout tagout you know all these different sections for training and then over you know you got to maintain the standards so how are you going to do it how are you going to audit your facility are you going to replace, you know, are you how are you going to replace labels that need to be replaced?
[00:25:39] - How are you going to maintain your equipment?
[00:25:45] - You know, your lockout points, all of that.
[00:25:45] - So, you know, what is going to be your long-term maintenance standard around this.
[00:25:53] - So, you can see here is like a framework for a totally visual safety program, right?
[00:26:00] - Where you have services that can come in and make sure that you are being compliant.
[00:26:00] - You know, your your machines are labeled correctly, your procedures are there, so you really have comprehensive training, all the safety services there, and then your software, how are you printing, how do you want to get that data onto your label.
[00:26:12] - Do you want like for arc flash, do you want you have a database and you want to merge it onto a label and then print your warning, you know, your arc flash labels from a template and, you know, a database.
[00:26:24] - So, you know, think about how are how do you want to do it?
[00:26:30] - Or do you just want your workers to be able to go up, you know, and type what they need and and kind of get going that way.
[00:26:35] - So, lots of different options.
[00:26:35] - And then, of course, you want to think about like what do I need?
[00:26:40] - You know, I need pipe markers.
[00:26:40] - I want to, you know, have clear aisles.
[00:26:40] - I want some gauge labeling, right?
[00:26:46] - So, you know, what are all the other areas around your facility and your machinery that need to have good clear identification?
[00:26:52] - And then, of course, like how do I integrate that all, right?
[00:26:57] - What what's my total solution look like?
[00:26:57] - What kind of printing systems do I need for, you know, that safety program so that you can maintain it over time.
[00:27:09] - Okay.
[00:27:09] - And with that, you know, I will open we'll open the floor to questions.
[00:27:16] - I have Will with me today.
[00:27:16] - He is going to help us.
[00:27:16] - He's facilitating for me today.
[00:27:21] - So if there's any questions from the audience you know this is great time to ask and then I will also say I did put a QR code and a link here that you know if if you want some help you know we are happy to help like identify you know areas for you to start with if you need an audit if you just want to talk through some options you know maybe there's a certain compliance piece one of those you know compliance areas you're like ah I really want to get you know better at my OSHA or my lockout tag out.
[00:27:51] - You know, we are happy to help with any of those needs as well and that you can just link there and get a demo.
[00:27:59] - Hi everybody.
[00:27:59] - Yeah, this was fantastic.
[00:27:59] - We do have a few questions.
[00:28:08] - One is coming from Jennifer J.
[00:28:08] - She would like to know so our facility already has an informal or legacy if you want to call it legacy color coding system.
[00:28:20] - What is the best strategy to transition to a strict lean standard without causing operational confusion during the roll out?
[00:28:31] - That is that's a fantastic question.
[00:28:31] - I mean I think so you could there's a couple ways you could go forward with it, right?
[00:28:38] - So you can say, you know what, we are going to do a lean event.
[00:28:38] - We, you know, and I've seen facilities, they say, we are going to do all of our lockout tagout.
[00:28:44] - We're going to take a week.
[00:28:44] - We're going to just go through it.
[00:28:49] - We're going to do a full changeover.
[00:28:49] - Certainly can.
[00:28:49] - I do think you want to think about the future, right?
[00:28:56] - And so, you know, if you want to be compliant, you know, there I would definitely recommend moving forward with the correct color system that you, you know, you can and then replacing as you move through your facility, right?
[00:29:08] - So, you can of course do a whole lean event and say, you know, we're going to update everything, assign a timeline to all of that, work through it.
[00:29:22] - There's actually places that can help you do that, come in and do that for you.
[00:29:22] - You know, we have a services group as well at Brady that can come in and, you, know, help get, you know, things through and bring in a consultant and things like that just to help you through that process.
[00:29:34] - But I do know a lot of companies will do, you know, sort of these events and really kind of take care of it all at once.
[00:29:42] - You can transition, right?
[00:29:42] - It's it's it's not it's not hard to just start with, you know, the updated colors.
[00:29:48] - You will kind of maybe notice a little bit of a difference.
[00:29:48] - But you know, I would also communicate that right to your users as well through training and just making sure that they're aware that, you know, we are now moving to the ISO, you know, blue, you know, we're going to now do the the blue icons, things like that, right?
[00:30:05] - We're going to update our standards and make sure that we're clear on those.
[00:30:14] - Excellent.
[00:30:14] - I think I'm saying that name right.
[00:30:14] - I apologize if I if I did not.
[00:30:21] - I'm in Sanga would like to know, so we've been trying to secure long-term buying from our frontline staff, but we're receiving some push back.
[00:30:28] - Is there a way that we can secure that so that sustaining 5S becomes a daily habit rather than a top-down mandate?
[00:30:44] - Yeah.
[00:30:44] - So so some things that you know you really need to do as part of a full system is onboarding right so you know as you're onboarding an employee it is literally like this is what we do in this facility right walk them through so you can easily get to new hires you know and train them that this is how we are going to you know identify areas you can walk through the facility you know what tools do they have you know really work with kind to those new users and then you know you got to keep training your staff right so incentives around training you know everyday communication around training I mean this is this is safety for them as well right and so you know making it easy for them to have the tools they need to be able to comply you know make sure they understand the process everything's clearly documented for them you can give them incentives I know like even our facility we had, you know, this amazing, you know, number of days, no incidents and there was, you know, like a celebration for the workers saying, you know, we've kept everybody safe for so many days and we really wanted to celebrate that.
[00:31:54] - So, you know, just making it part of your culture and, you know, this is who we are and what we do, I think, you know, goes a long way as well.
[00:32:07] - You can always be punitive, right?
[00:32:14] - So there's always the punitive way of like you know if if you see errors and you know things going on for your employees but that just isn't always the best way to go right it's really more like can you be compliant and just become part of your everyday do your walks do walks in the you know in the morning do walks once a week through the facility you know really integrate that in to the total you know workday thanks will go ahead yeah no problem sorry I jumped in there we did have one more that I'm seeing.
[00:32:45] - It's from a Kelly Catlips.
[00:32:45] - Is there an industry standard color palette you recommend adopting to ensure compliance with OSHA or other regulatory bodies?
[00:32:58] - Thank you for asking.
[00:32:58] - I actually in this presentation which we send out to everybody, I have a last page for you.
[00:33:04] - Right.
[00:33:04] - This is the peace to the resistance, right?
[00:33:04] - So, if you are wanting to comply, there are websites.
[00:33:09] - They each have their own website and location where they will have their color standards, right?
[00:33:16] - If you're going to start somewhere, obviously Anie is kind of the top of the the heat.
[00:33:23] - And that color palette now is sort of being standardized across a lot of other industries as well.
[00:33:29] - So, you know, you can definitely start, you know, making sure that you're an compliant.
[00:33:37] - I do have this in the deck for everybody as you know where can you go to get those color standards.
[00:33:43] - Awesome.
[00:33:43] - And I'm looking through we have one from Troy Isendorf.
[00:33:51] - You have the other ANC Z535 standard headers except safety instruction.
[00:33:56] - Can that be added to the Brady templates?
[00:34:03] - Ah, and see like in the bra the Brady workstation.
[00:34:09] - Yeah, I believe that's what we're what he's asking.
[00:34:09] - Awesome.
[00:34:14] - I will take that back to the product manager.
[00:34:14] - You bet.
[00:34:14] - It's a great suggestion.
[00:34:20] - Yeah, he confirmed workstation.
[00:34:20] - Yeah, that's a great suggestion.
[00:34:20] - Great suggestion.
[00:34:25] - Okay.
[00:34:25] - You want to make it really easy for people to comply obviously.
[00:34:25] - So, correct.
[00:34:25] - Yes.
[00:34:33] - I'm not seeing any other questions coming through.
[00:34:33] - So, I think at this time we'll we'll call it.
[00:34:40] - Yeah.
[00:34:40] - Thank you, Nicole.
[00:34:40] - All right.
[00:34:40] - Well, everybody, I really appreciate your time today.
[00:34:40] - Thank you so much for joining the webinar.
[00:34:46] - If there's other topics you have, you know, obviously you can even use that demo request form to, you know, come in and, you know, ask for different programs.
[00:34:53] - You can always contact Brady and let us know as well.
[00:34:53] - Appreciate your time today.
[00:34:59] - And, you know, go Brewers.
[00:34:59] - Let's go Brewers.
[00:34:59] - Thanks all.
[00:34:59] - Take care.
[00:00:02] - Good afternoon.
[00:00:02] - Welcome to Brady's webinar series.
[00:00:02] - Today we're going to be talking about safety and the power of color and the standards that go around color for compliance and visual workplace safety.
[00:00:14] - I'm Nicole Nelson.
[00:00:14] - I'm a global product manager here at Brady.
[00:00:14] - I handle full color solutions for Brady and also our inkjet systems.
[00:00:20] - So we're going to talk about five areas today.
[00:00:20] - One we're gonna just, you know, kind of ground ourselves in the visual workplace and what that means for us.
[00:00:28] - Then we're going to do just kind of a fun dive into color, right?
[00:00:34] - Like why does color matter?
[00:00:34] - How did we get to the standards that we have?
[00:00:41] - And then we will highlight some of the, you know, the most critical standards that we see in visual workplace and safety applications.
[00:00:48] - Then we can talk about you know what are the best applications and how do you go about doing the solution and then really how do you implement a system.
[00:00:55] - So with that we're going to start you know as you can see here there's a very big difference for users when you see something in black and white in a very monochrome environment and now all of a sudden you see those pops of color.
[00:01:08] - You know you can see the yellow for you know warning.
[00:01:14] - You've got your floor tape, you know, really designating to people perhaps where, you know, your walkway is, where your safety areas are.
[00:01:21] - So, these are really critical areas to, you know, help the user identify what is around them.
[00:01:27] - I just think this is a great visual on, you know, how how color really helps with safety and visual cues.
[00:01:35] - All right, so what is the 5-second rule?
[00:01:42] - There is actually something that came out of lean manufacturing 5S and that whole methodology around, you know, Toyota production systems quite a while ago and it's literally a 5-second rule, right?
[00:01:53] - Like a worker must be able to look and in 5 seconds determine what they're looking at.
[00:01:59] - Is there a hazard?
[00:01:59] - Do I need to stop?
[00:01:59] - What do I need to do?
[00:02:05] - That includes, you know, zone boundaries, machine status, PPE, any requirements that you have.
[00:02:12] - And then you know, typically they think if it takes longer than 5 seconds for that, you probably should reook at that that system, right?
[00:02:17] - That process, that's that sign, that cue.
[00:02:25] - Is there something that you can do to quickly identify that situation for a user?
[00:02:25] - That's kind of like a good rule of thumb for a facility and safety.
[00:02:31] - Okay.
[00:02:37] - So, how does color help?
[00:02:37] - I think you know we can look at some of these signs here and immediately you know what they are just based on color or the shape.
[00:02:43] - So speed, right?
[00:02:49] - So, you know, before you even read what it says on that sign, you know, that's a stop sign, right?
[00:02:49] - So, you know, it's got quick comprehension for a user.
[00:02:56] - It reduces errors very quickly.
[00:02:56] - Especially if you're thinking about like high stress situations, and dangerous situations, you really absolutely want to reduce any errors that you have there.
[00:03:08] - And then like language barriers, right?
[00:03:08] - Like I can go in any airport in the world and look at that in you know that blue sign and I'm kind of know that that's the information booth right so I'm going to get some information right there and I can also exit with that green sign so you know you start to develop these global standards that we as humans just automatically can identify with and it creates you know that that understanding very quickly across different workforces.
[00:03:38] - Okay.
[00:03:38] - So what's the history, right?
[00:03:38] - Like why where how did we get here?
[00:03:38] - So in the early 1900s there were plant specifications and you know there was everybody kind of did it a little differently.
[00:03:52] - It caused a lot of confusion in the history of you know industry and all of that and so you know there was a lot of people moving from factory to factory and then they would get confused.
[00:03:57] - So in the 1970s ANIE and OSHA really came together and started putting some standards together regarding you know red for danger, yellow caution, different pipe codes.
[00:04:12] - So you started to see in the 1970s that come forward with compliance across companies so that we were a little more unified and it was you know a safer for users.
[00:04:24] - And then in the 2000s you know and even now we continue to see additional adoption right so we started to see GHS GHS was a chemical standard and we started to see you know red borders and different iconography and now we have ISO symbols that are coming and those are also becoming color specific and we're going to go through some of those examples you know later on here I do have a whole next slide we're going to talk about some ADA compliance but you Now you can see here now that yellow all of a sudden becomes more valuable.
[00:04:55] - Before in the slide we just we had a yellow triangle and now you start to see oh that symbol means something to me as a user right?
[00:05:02] - Oh I see electricity I see you know hazardous waste things like that.
[00:05:10] - So you know all of these symbols start to mean something as well as we start to get more into that global harmonization.
[00:05:17] - So again five seconds I can see oh my gosh there's poison right?
[00:05:22] - So as a worker I have to use caution with this item.
[00:05:28] - So then let's just talk a little bit about you know ADA.
[00:05:28] - So when you start to talk about color you know you really do have to think about your entire workforce and there is going to be you know a section of the workforce that doesn't see color in all the ways you know and there's different different ways they see color.
[00:05:46] - So now there's actually been, you know, more amendments and different, you know, accessibility codes for how we use color in the workforce and with signage, right?
[00:05:53] - You don't just do yellow, you do now a border around the yellow so that you can see that definitive shape.
[00:06:00] - So you can start to see contrasts with different colors.
[00:06:07] - So you know, you do want to understand why we've gotten where we have as, you know, a general safety population, right?
[00:06:12] - You may have a shape, but until you've defined that shape, until you've added a symbol to the shape, and then potentially even you've added those context and those words, right?
[00:06:24] - So that you're clearly saying caution, danger in all the respective languages, right?
[00:06:24] - This gives very quick 5-second recognition to the workforce.
[00:06:30] - And it, you know, is very inclusive of, you know, all the needs of the workers.
[00:06:42] - Okay.
[00:06:42] - So, you know, just for fun, Brady, you know, we're going to use an example here.
[00:06:47] - So, it's just really interesting to see how did we get where we are?
[00:06:47] - And you know, people always ask about color.
[00:06:53] - When you have a standard, they're going to assign a color specification to that standard.
[00:06:53] - You are going to get an antsy red.
[00:07:00] - You are going to get an ISO blue.
[00:07:00] - What does that mean for us?
[00:07:00] - There's a lot of different ways to get there.
[00:07:06] - And Brady, you know, we're located in Milwaukee, so I put, you know, the Brewers example here for us all.
[00:07:13] - So early in the 1700s you we started to understand color as a science right using prisms and optics and how do you you know how do you get to color theory.
[00:07:20] - Then in the 1900s Albert Mel developed the Mel color tree which now you know is widely widely used for how we understand color.
[00:07:35] - You know, if you've ever gone to like, let's say you're picking colors for your house and you go to Sherman Williams or a lovely, you know, Home Depot somewhere like that, Menard's, and now you see the books of color, right?
[00:07:41] - So, you know, you start to understand like what all the ranges are for the color standard.
[00:07:49] - So, you know, that then became sort of that definitive, you know, what colors are available to us.
[00:07:54] - Then, as technology grew, we started to want to use colors in different ways.
[00:07:59] - We wanted to start printing with colors.
[00:08:07] - So in like 1906, we had now inks.
[00:08:07] - How are we going to use this ink and develop a color from that ink?
[00:08:14] - Right?
[00:08:14] - So you have, you remember back in elementary school, you did your color wheels, right?
[00:08:19] - So you've got cyan, magenta, yellow.
[00:08:19] - Those together will create different colors.
[00:08:25] - Now you can add black in.
[00:08:25] - You can have like pure black or you can add black to those and brighten them and make them more, you know, dense in color.
[00:08:32] - So now ink sets became CMK, right?
[00:08:32] - So and now we could start commercially processing.
[00:08:39] - We could do books, we could do magazines, we could do newspapers and color.
[00:08:44] - So now all of a sudden print world, you know, became alive for the use of color.
[00:08:44] - Then there was you know of course in 1927 in Germany they wanted to stand you know standardize more in that paint color space.
[00:08:58] - So when you start to come out of the CMK world and you start to go into specific ink sets you actually open up your your range of colors.
[00:09:05] - So now it's like okay well I want blue but how do I get to that standard of blue?
[00:09:12] - So they created the RAL system which is a number system as well.
[00:09:18] - And then finally like in the 1963 air you know area of time panone right and we talk about panone now all the time like what's that panone color you know we talk about what's the panone color of the year so it became very prevalent for us to understand panone we have different books for panones companies have specs around panone colors so you know you can see here you know for our brewer one we have you know 29 The 293C is our panone color, right?
[00:09:51] - And so you start to develop that, you know, some really iconic panone colors include the Tiffany's color, right?
[00:09:57] - So Tiffany has that same color globally.
[00:10:02] - Companies start to have panone colors.
[00:10:02] - Brady has a panone color.
[00:10:02] - You know, I'm guessing most companies have guidelines around what their colors, you know, are for their logos and things like that.
[00:10:09] - And then of course we then came into, oh my gosh, now we have computer screens and computer screens and all the processing around computers show color in a very different way.
[00:10:22] - So we had to do something called RGB, red, green, blue.
[00:10:27] - And so what are those, you know, digital outputs for color and how do we create standards around RGB values?
[00:10:35] - And then hex values were created and those are actually all digital.
[00:10:41] - So, you know, when you're, let's imagine now you're, you know, creating something on maybe you've got a phone and you're making a logo and now that phone has to translate.
[00:10:48] - You see it on the screen, but you want to print it onto your printer.
[00:10:54] - All those translations have to happen for that ink set to be able to print.
[00:11:01] - And what does that mean for us, right?
[00:11:01] - So, if you think about the color differences, every ink set and every value is going to have a range range that it can print.
[00:11:06] - And that's called the gamut.
[00:11:12] - And so, you know, if you think about like I'm printing a sign and I need antsy red, for example, what am I printing on?
[00:11:17] - What inks am I using?
[00:11:17] - Am I going to be able to hit that range of color that I am looking for?
[00:11:24] - And so typically what a lot of standards will do is they will provide you know a a target range but then you know provide a delta a change a value that you know if you get close to it is you know completely acceptable for that range.
[00:11:44] - So color order is called you know how do you measure and and organize color then hue will also affect it right what family is it what is that color what is the hue that's how we call you know like is it in the red family is it you know where is it on this chart and then value right so now we get into lightness and darkness tint or shade white or black like how what you know how light is that color how you know how dark is that color?
[00:12:15] - You get into pastels in that case or you know different you know different kinds of you you can get like a steel blue for example, right?
[00:12:20] - So how does the light affect and also you know there's a lot of like how does the light around you affect that color?
[00:12:26] - You can be in a you know operational environment with a certain set of lights and then you walk to a front conference room and now you have natural light.
[00:12:39] - Your color could look different based on the lightness and the darkness around you as well.
[00:12:39] - And then obviously chroma has to do with how bright or how dull, right?
[00:12:46] - So that is literally like how much color is being put down.
[00:12:53] - Is it vivid?
[00:12:53] - You know, is it a dull color?
[00:12:53] - Like how much are you saturating the color?
[00:12:53] - So you know getting to that accuracy of color and how intense is that color?
[00:12:59] - Okay.
[00:13:06] - So now we're going to talk about some of the standards that use color.
[00:13:06] - Right.
[00:13:06] - So I think first and foremost we have ANIE, right? always top of mind for an organization that is has a you know great safety program is you are complying with your Yansy standards right and these are the visual standards for signs tags labels there are signal words it combines color it combines communication you know this really allows workers to understand like you know maybe I'm at a factory but now I'm going on site to a construction environment they're going to get that same information right no matter where if they're in one plant or another plant.
[00:13:37] - You know this becomes a very common s communication path for them and so they have definitely defined five diff distinct areas right we have danger which is red warning orange caution yellow.
[00:13:57] - So you know your risk becomes a little bit less you know as the colors change but you know it definitely gives you a okay well this is more informative versus oh my gosh this is like critical a danger area.
[00:14:10] - So, you know, really allows that worker to identify what's happening.
[00:14:17] - Blue is typically, you know, general property maintenance, you know, notice, things like that.
[00:14:17] - Eyewash station becomes now safety, right?
[00:14:17] - So, where you're seeing green, right?
[00:14:24] - Green is like an eyewash station, first aid, you know, typically any health related items become that that green and then the icons match those colors then as well.
[00:14:31] - Typically, in a lot of cases, Okay.
[00:14:36] - And then we have pipe markers.
[00:14:42] - Pipe markers also have standards, right?
[00:14:42] - So when we talk about, you know, which line and what does that look like and is it water which direction is it going?
[00:14:48] - So then they said, okay, we definitely need some standards around, you know, the piping that's in our systems and how we're going to flow rate through the facilities.
[00:15:01] - And so there was a lot of pipe marking standards that then came out where you know red you know where it has to do with the fire you know extinguishing system green becomes water things like that.
[00:15:07] - So you know really clear identification from plant to plant like let's say your maintenance team is going to different facilities you know it's very clear for them to see that standardization then that happens.
[00:15:27] - OSHA also came in and said let's make sure that we have some guidelines as well.
[00:15:32] - This was you know mandated in occupational safety and health administrations.
[00:15:37] - We got the OSHA we have the 29 CFR that drives a lot of compliance right visual clues workplace lockout tagout caution areas.
[00:15:49] - So you know are you doing you know doing your physical hazards on your equipment and your gear for your employees appropriately.
[00:15:55] - So red obviously emergency kind of shutdown areas, fire protection gear, flammable items and then yellow becomes then more that caution place, right?
[00:16:07] - So kind of mirrored a little bit after the ANIE standards but you know nonetheless critical as well that that is something a company also wants to make sure that they are complying with.
[00:16:20] - So then we even have like you know electrical boundaries now we have the OSHA so we have the ANIE we have the OSHA and now we have arc flash labeling right arcs flash very specific to fire protection NFPA labeling safety risk assessment boundaries so now you're actually telling the user a lot of things about the equipment they're about to you know be part of or touch so how far do you need to be what PPE do you need to be wearing like really critical pieces of information start to put get put on these labels that protect workers and give them that information.
[00:16:54] - So you also have warning and danger signs so that you know immediately you know what that situation is with that piece of equipment.
[00:17:01] - You start to get different colors for zones and boundary radiuses.
[00:17:09] - Then you have categories right for the PPE.
[00:17:09] - So you start to see, you know, more sort of instructional labeling come out as it becomes more important on the different pieces of equipment and more specific to the user.
[00:17:25] - Another great example is GHS, right?
[00:17:25] - Where we are seeing now, you know, when when chemicals get shipped globally now, we're not just, you know, within our facility, they're actually moving between facilities.
[00:17:38] - They're being brought from a large container to small containers, you know, that secondary labeling.
[00:17:44] - So, we are, you know, seeing much more and more global use of GHS.
[00:17:44] - They're actually just coming out with drum specifications now around how large that label needs to be on a drum.
[00:17:52] - We also have BS5609 requirements which say, you know, if you're shipping that via water, your label needs to withstand, you know, there's like that sub bullet of compliance of, you know, if it falls in the water, it's still legible, you know, after three months.
[00:18:12] - So, you know, GHS starts to play more of a role and they have now the red diamond.
[00:18:18] - And again, back to that whole principle of you don't just do color.
[00:18:18] - You've got color, you have a visual visual designation within the color, and then you have all your wording that tells the operator who's specifically using that item what information they need to know for it.
[00:18:36] - HACCP now has a lot to do with, you know, I'm a specific industry.
[00:18:36] - I am food and beverage, right?
[00:18:42] - And now I need to control access points in my food and beverage facility.
[00:18:48] - So I've even gone a step further to say not only do I have ANIE and OSHA and you know all those requirements regarding my general facility but now I am you know working with areas and I need to prevent food you know crosscontamination for food and for you know other safety regulations for you know my employees but also my customers down the road right so there's a lot of color designations here for example red right raw meat blue seafood food, yellow poultry, you know, so they start to designate areas that say, you know, let's make sure that on this equipment we're only using these types of products.
[00:19:25] - And so, you know, that use of color again comes into play, you know, as you get more narrow and narrow into specific industries as well.
[00:19:38] - Lockout tag out.
[00:19:38] - Another you know co like another cascading sort of requirement from OSHA and anie is I'm at that point of locking out my machinery, right?
[00:19:50] - I am telling the person that's going to be touching this equipment what is happening on this equipment.
[00:19:57] - I am I am tagging it with what type of energy source it is.
[00:19:57] - I am telling the user, you know, I'm designating it with a color.
[00:20:02] - So they know is it pneumatic system?
[00:20:07] - Is it electrical disconnect?
[00:20:07] - So you know that point of labeling actually also becomes so critical to keeping that user safe and that you know the employee so they know you know what is happening in that area and they can use the appropriate procedures and systems around keeping themselves safe as well.
[00:20:31] - Okay.
[00:20:31] - So let's how do we implement right?
[00:20:31] - So you know we got all these requirements but now now what do we do right?
[00:20:36] - So there's different ways to come forward with a facility ID and 5S system.
[00:20:42] - So you know you can start to do things like you know label things around your facility as well beyond just I'm putting up a signage right I'm doing a sign but now I can also track my assets with color.
[00:20:56] - I can you know make sure that we're not mixing things that things are designated.
[00:20:56] - We got boundaries set.
[00:20:56] - We know where things go.
[00:21:04] - So, you know, not only are we being comprehensive about, you know, identifying the facility and doing our signage, but now we're also, you know, sorting and shining and keeping that area clean and, you know, effective for the users so they're not, you know, also putting themselves in danger by, you know, moving around in areas where they shouldn't be or looking for things where they shouldn't be.
[00:21:22] - Everything is put back where it needs to be and they've got a design designated place and and location for all of that.
[00:21:28] - There's also floor marking, right?
[00:21:35] - So, there's now options for heavy duty floor tape.
[00:21:35] - Like, you're not going to be stepping in this area.
[00:21:35] - This is a safety area.
[00:21:41] - Where is your where is your access?
[00:21:41] - Where are your walkways?
[00:21:41] - You know, where is it safe to go?
[00:21:47] - Where do users need, you know, that visibility for hightra walkways?
[00:21:47] - Where is the forklifts coming from?
[00:21:55] - So, you know, really important to designate other areas also with color and different ways to let your users know and your workers know what's safe in the facility.
[00:22:07] - There's now also really amazing tools like LED projectors out there, right?
[00:22:07] - So, you can cast different things.
[00:22:07] - You can change it a little bit.
[00:22:14] - You know, they say that, you know, people sometimes over time, like if you change a little bit about it, it'll direct people a little more quickly and they won't just sort of blindly go by it.
[00:22:20] - Okay, no, really, stop here.
[00:22:27] - So, you know, this allows you to be a little more dynamic in your communication to your employees on, you know, if you've got a walkway that's maybe changing or you're doing construction or, you know, you need to move your facility around, you can adapt to things like that.
[00:22:39] - If you're doing washdowns, etc. these are really great environments for something like a LED projector.
[00:22:52] - And then of course, like I need a sign, like how do I be compliant?
[00:22:52] - Like what what are ways that I can, you know, get a pipe marker?
[00:22:58] - There are a lot of different systems out there to help you.
[00:22:58] - You can, it's very simple to just go buy some preprinted signage.
[00:23:05] - You know, put it up where you need it.
[00:23:05] - You know, typically low volume, you know, if you don't have a lot, that makes a lot of sense.
[00:23:10] - But then, okay, well, maybe I'm changing it more in my facility.
[00:23:10] - I need to do more labeling or I want a little more dynamic labeling.
[00:23:16] - You know, maybe I want to go onsite.
[00:23:16] - I want to walk around with my printer and I want to print as I need.
[00:23:23] - Portable printing is a great solution there.
[00:23:23] - And now maybe, oh my gosh, I have a lot of different color changes and needs like, you know, I I want to be really flexible with my color.
[00:23:34] - There's also inkjet color solutions out there that allows you to change you know the color with every label if you want or you know change your dynamic information.
[00:23:46] - And then of course, let's say, ah, I need this to be outdoor or I need, you know, intense, you know, chemical resistance.
[00:23:46] - Thermal transfer really is the best for that situation, right?
[00:23:54] - You can print your pipe markers.
[00:23:54] - You could get all the colors that you need.
[00:24:00] - There's like the anti colors available, all of that.
[00:24:00] - So, you know, really easy to use.
[00:24:00] - You can, you know, edit it on the board on board like maybe you've got a station for your workers, your maintenance team to come up to, you know, or you can use it with software.
[00:24:12] - There's just a lot of different ways depending on how you and your facility want to use these systems.
[00:24:18] - All right, where would I start?
[00:24:24] - Okay, five steps, right?
[00:24:24] - Number one, you're going to audit, right?
[00:24:24] - You're going to walk around your facility.
[00:24:24] - You're going to really think about like where are my monochrome environments?
[00:24:32] - Where can I put signage?
[00:24:32] - You know, what makes sense?
[00:24:32] - Is it a 5-second rule?
[00:24:32] - Can I immediately identify, you know, what's happening in this area?
[00:24:38] - And then, you know, you're going to figure out your colors, right?
[00:24:44] - I'm complying with ANIE, so I need, you know, red, yellow, blue, you know, I need all the Anie colors so that I, you know, I'm officially following the the safety protocols.
[00:24:51] - Select the media then, right?
[00:24:57] - So, what is that label?
[00:24:57] - Is that going in a harsh washdown environment?
[00:24:57] - You're going to want a label that can resist washdown, right?
[00:25:03] - So, you know, think about what environment you're in.
[00:25:03] - Are you outside?
[00:25:03] - Are you in a dirty environment?
[00:25:10] - You know like where is that label need to go where does that ID need to go and then select appropriately of course there's just a huge amount of training involved right so educating your teams you know providing compliance in training and making sure that you're meeting those needs around you know being compliant lockout tagout you know all these different sections for training and then over you know you got to maintain the standards so how are you going to do it how are you going to audit your facility are you going to replace, you know, are you how are you going to replace labels that need to be replaced?
[00:25:39] - How are you going to maintain your equipment?
[00:25:45] - You know, your lockout points, all of that.
[00:25:45] - So, you know, what is going to be your long-term maintenance standard around this.
[00:25:53] - So, you can see here is like a framework for a totally visual safety program, right?
[00:26:00] - Where you have services that can come in and make sure that you are being compliant.
[00:26:00] - You know, your your machines are labeled correctly, your procedures are there, so you really have comprehensive training, all the safety services there, and then your software, how are you printing, how do you want to get that data onto your label.
[00:26:12] - Do you want like for arc flash, do you want you have a database and you want to merge it onto a label and then print your warning, you know, your arc flash labels from a template and, you know, a database.
[00:26:24] - So, you know, think about how are how do you want to do it?
[00:26:30] - Or do you just want your workers to be able to go up, you know, and type what they need and and kind of get going that way.
[00:26:35] - So, lots of different options.
[00:26:35] - And then, of course, you want to think about like what do I need?
[00:26:40] - You know, I need pipe markers.
[00:26:40] - I want to, you know, have clear aisles.
[00:26:40] - I want some gauge labeling, right?
[00:26:46] - So, you know, what are all the other areas around your facility and your machinery that need to have good clear identification?
[00:26:52] - And then, of course, like how do I integrate that all, right?
[00:26:57] - What what's my total solution look like?
[00:26:57] - What kind of printing systems do I need for, you know, that safety program so that you can maintain it over time.
[00:27:09] - Okay.
[00:27:09] - And with that, you know, I will open we'll open the floor to questions.
[00:27:16] - I have Will with me today.
[00:27:16] - He is going to help us.
[00:27:16] - He's facilitating for me today.
[00:27:21] - So if there's any questions from the audience you know this is great time to ask and then I will also say I did put a QR code and a link here that you know if if you want some help you know we are happy to help like identify you know areas for you to start with if you need an audit if you just want to talk through some options you know maybe there's a certain compliance piece one of those you know compliance areas you're like ah I really want to get you know better at my OSHA or my lockout tag out.
[00:27:51] - You know, we are happy to help with any of those needs as well and that you can just link there and get a demo.
[00:27:59] - Hi everybody.
[00:27:59] - Yeah, this was fantastic.
[00:27:59] - We do have a few questions.
[00:28:08] - One is coming from Jennifer J.
[00:28:08] - She would like to know so our facility already has an informal or legacy if you want to call it legacy color coding system.
[00:28:20] - What is the best strategy to transition to a strict lean standard without causing operational confusion during the roll out?
[00:28:31] - That is that's a fantastic question.
[00:28:31] - I mean I think so you could there's a couple ways you could go forward with it, right?
[00:28:38] - So you can say, you know what, we are going to do a lean event.
[00:28:38] - We, you know, and I've seen facilities, they say, we are going to do all of our lockout tagout.
[00:28:44] - We're going to take a week.
[00:28:44] - We're going to just go through it.
[00:28:49] - We're going to do a full changeover.
[00:28:49] - Certainly can.
[00:28:49] - I do think you want to think about the future, right?
[00:28:56] - And so, you know, if you want to be compliant, you know, there I would definitely recommend moving forward with the correct color system that you, you know, you can and then replacing as you move through your facility, right?
[00:29:08] - So, you can of course do a whole lean event and say, you know, we're going to update everything, assign a timeline to all of that, work through it.
[00:29:22] - There's actually places that can help you do that, come in and do that for you.
[00:29:22] - You know, we have a services group as well at Brady that can come in and, you, know, help get, you know, things through and bring in a consultant and things like that just to help you through that process.
[00:29:34] - But I do know a lot of companies will do, you know, sort of these events and really kind of take care of it all at once.
[00:29:42] - You can transition, right?
[00:29:42] - It's it's it's not it's not hard to just start with, you know, the updated colors.
[00:29:48] - You will kind of maybe notice a little bit of a difference.
[00:29:48] - But you know, I would also communicate that right to your users as well through training and just making sure that they're aware that, you know, we are now moving to the ISO, you know, blue, you know, we're going to now do the the blue icons, things like that, right?
[00:30:05] - We're going to update our standards and make sure that we're clear on those.
[00:30:14] - Excellent.
[00:30:14] - I think I'm saying that name right.
[00:30:14] - I apologize if I if I did not.
[00:30:21] - I'm in Sanga would like to know, so we've been trying to secure long-term buying from our frontline staff, but we're receiving some push back.
[00:30:28] - Is there a way that we can secure that so that sustaining 5S becomes a daily habit rather than a top-down mandate?
[00:30:44] - Yeah.
[00:30:44] - So so some things that you know you really need to do as part of a full system is onboarding right so you know as you're onboarding an employee it is literally like this is what we do in this facility right walk them through so you can easily get to new hires you know and train them that this is how we are going to you know identify areas you can walk through the facility you know what tools do they have you know really work with kind to those new users and then you know you got to keep training your staff right so incentives around training you know everyday communication around training I mean this is this is safety for them as well right and so you know making it easy for them to have the tools they need to be able to comply you know make sure they understand the process everything's clearly documented for them you can give them incentives I know like even our facility we had, you know, this amazing, you know, number of days, no incidents and there was, you know, like a celebration for the workers saying, you know, we've kept everybody safe for so many days and we really wanted to celebrate that.
[00:31:54] - So, you know, just making it part of your culture and, you know, this is who we are and what we do, I think, you know, goes a long way as well.
[00:32:07] - You can always be punitive, right?
[00:32:14] - So there's always the punitive way of like you know if if you see errors and you know things going on for your employees but that just isn't always the best way to go right it's really more like can you be compliant and just become part of your everyday do your walks do walks in the you know in the morning do walks once a week through the facility you know really integrate that in to the total you know workday thanks will go ahead yeah no problem sorry I jumped in there we did have one more that I'm seeing.
[00:32:45] - It's from a Kelly Catlips.
[00:32:45] - Is there an industry standard color palette you recommend adopting to ensure compliance with OSHA or other regulatory bodies?
[00:32:58] - Thank you for asking.
[00:32:58] - I actually in this presentation which we send out to everybody, I have a last page for you.
[00:33:04] - Right.
[00:33:04] - This is the peace to the resistance, right?
[00:33:04] - So, if you are wanting to comply, there are websites.
[00:33:09] - They each have their own website and location where they will have their color standards, right?
[00:33:16] - If you're going to start somewhere, obviously Anie is kind of the top of the the heat.
[00:33:23] - And that color palette now is sort of being standardized across a lot of other industries as well.
[00:33:29] - So, you know, you can definitely start, you know, making sure that you're an compliant.
[00:33:37] - I do have this in the deck for everybody as you know where can you go to get those color standards.
[00:33:43] - Awesome.
[00:33:43] - And I'm looking through we have one from Troy Isendorf.
[00:33:51] - You have the other ANC Z535 standard headers except safety instruction.
[00:33:56] - Can that be added to the Brady templates?
[00:34:03] - Ah, and see like in the bra the Brady workstation.
[00:34:09] - Yeah, I believe that's what we're what he's asking.
[00:34:09] - Awesome.
[00:34:14] - I will take that back to the product manager.
[00:34:14] - You bet.
[00:34:14] - It's a great suggestion.
[00:34:20] - Yeah, he confirmed workstation.
[00:34:20] - Yeah, that's a great suggestion.
[00:34:20] - Great suggestion.
[00:34:25] - Okay.
[00:34:25] - You want to make it really easy for people to comply obviously.
[00:34:25] - So, correct.
[00:34:25] - Yes.
[00:34:33] - I'm not seeing any other questions coming through.
[00:34:33] - So, I think at this time we'll we'll call it.
[00:34:40] - Yeah.
[00:34:40] - Thank you, Nicole.
[00:34:40] - All right.
[00:34:40] - Well, everybody, I really appreciate your time today.
[00:34:40] - Thank you so much for joining the webinar.
[00:34:46] - If there's other topics you have, you know, obviously you can even use that demo request form to, you know, come in and, you know, ask for different programs.
[00:34:53] - You can always contact Brady and let us know as well.
[00:34:53] - Appreciate your time today.
[00:34:59] - And, you know, go Brewers.
[00:34:59] - Let's go Brewers.
[00:34:59] - Thanks all.
[00:34:59] - Take care.