Aluminium

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It is safe to say that is the standard for the industry today, it is a versatile and pliant metal that when combined with heavy-duty plastics, create a great signage composite.

As well as the flexibility of the material, are a great substrate to place onto, as you can see here in the picture.

Archive for May, 2008, page 1

Permit To Work Safety Sign Sticker

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There are many places in industrial estates, industrial buildings or complexes, or offices, where you need a Permit to Work Safety Sign Sticker. It might be because of dangerous machinery, or because of secrecy issues (industrial espionage is real, you know), but whatever the reason this safety sign sticker is easy to understand and clearly shows what is mandatory.

These safety sign stickers are the standard size (100mm x 100mm) and clearly show some form of permit or identification is required.

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Bold Vehicle Livery

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Here is an example of vehicle livery where the text stands out very boldly against the colour of the vehicle. The second choice of colour (the shading on ‘Millcraft’) – gold, also stands out well.

All of this vehicle’s livery was cut in .

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Heavy Duty Printed Banner

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Banner 2

This unusual banner has been printed directly onto using to achieve the seamless colour and beautiful imagery. The blue on the edges has been sewn on afterwards.

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Bespoke Traffic Sign

Traffic sign innovation is obvious here as the usual aluminium posts are replaced by a very sturdy wooden block post (presumably already there).

This is a traffic sign but in a private area, but clearly it uses the standard road sign symbology. The material used is with laid over the top.

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College Sign, Cut Out Letters

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College Sign 27

College signs are just the same as any other sign, made from the same array of materials – this one is made from , and fixed in place to the wall.

The coat-of-arms design is made using applied to the aluminium composite, and the remaining letters are applied to the aluminium composite. In this case this makes the sign a , or what is known as .

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Hot Surface Safety Sign Sticker

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Here is a safety sign sticker that can be used in a variety of places – the Hot Surface Safety Sign Sticker.

Clearly it shows heat coming off of a surface and immediately I think of a kitchen. Perhaps a restaurant kitchen, or a supermarket rotisserie? There are many different kinds of hot surfaces. Perhaps an industrial use warning employees about a machine with a heated surface?

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Do Not Operate Safety Sign Sticker

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There are many situations where a Do Not Operate Safety Sign Sticker could come in handy. Perhaps an industrial plant where a machine is undergoing maintenance? Or maybe in conjunction with a No Unauthorised Usage Safety Sign Sticker that would require someone who is fully trained in a machine to use it.

It is very easy to understand this safety sign sticker, the vast majority of people can understand it.

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What’s Occurring?

In homage to Gavin & Stacey, the title says it all. Well, will tell it all.

We are a small company, and justifiably proud to have succeeded to this point. Like many small companies there have been trials and tribulations, ups and downs. With the time and dedication of many people the company has prospered and grown from a one-man outfit at the beginning (some twenty years ago) to nearly twenty employees now.

As you may imagine, whether you work for yourself, another small company, or a large company, the rules and regulations of running businesses have become more and more complicated as time has passed. This is however, becoming more and more of a deluge rather than a few letters informing us of regulatory and legal changes.

Submitting job proposals has become a lesson in following legal mumbo-jumbo. The various policies you must have in place have become so numerous and onerous that not having one can mean the difference between getting a contract and not (and that’s just pre-qualification!).

Writing this article I am aware I am not a manager, I am an employee, and even though I may not be involved in decision-making I have to say that I have sympathy for those that have to wade through this minefield of bureaucratic red tape – just to get in the door – kudos to their patience. I cannot imagine spending day after day filling out forms just so someone deciding on a contact can even look at our contract! How inane and ridiculous is that?

We have a very forthright and straightforward equal opportunities policy – the owner looks at everyone the same, regardless of sex, race, colour, religion, and so on. That seems fair to me. But this being the case, we -still- get rejected because our policy is not good enough. How can you be more fair? Here is one council’s list of Acts we should be “aware of”:

I (we) write this article in the hope that someone may also be in our position – a small company trying to stay upright, struggling against the governmental nonsense that they throw against us (even in these hard times) – and ask if you could give us a call, contact us, comment on this post. And even, if you think this might have jolted you a little, write to your MP and ask why more and more regulations are piled on us when we are the wheels of industry that keep this country moving…

Lastly, I am reminded of a famous quote, which I think would be appropriate at this point, supposedly attributed to Oscar Wilde:

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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