Fire Safety Signage
Bryants Fire Appliances
Fire Safety Signage in Leicester & Leicestershire
Fire safety signage is the quiet workhorse of any fire strategy — nobody thinks about it until the lights go out, at which point it becomes the single most important thing in the building. Under the Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, all commercial premises in the UK must display the correct signage to identify escape routes, fire action procedures, firefighting equipment, and prohibited actions.
Bryants Fire supplies and installs fully compliant signage across Leicester and Leicestershire, manufactured to BS 5499 (the British Standard governing safety signs) and BS ISO 7010 (the international graphical symbols standard now mandated for safety signs in the UK). That distinction matters: older BS 5499-only signs are being phased out, and a fire risk assessor flagging “non-compliant signage” is usually referring to a mix of the two standards appearing on the same site.
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What You Actually Need on Site
The exact signage schedule depends on your fire risk assessment, but most Leicestershire businesses we work with need a consistent core: photoluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) escape route signs along corridors, final exit signs above external doors, fire action notices by every call point, extinguisher ID signs above each unit, “fire door keep shut” or “keep locked” signs on every fire door, and an assembly point sign externally.
We carry out signage surveys as a standalone service or bundled with a fire risk assessment, producing a clear schedule of what needs replacing, repositioning, or adding. For new-build and refurbishment projects across Leicester, we also produce zonal plans — graphical drawings showing each fire alarm detection zone, mounted next to the fire alarm panel to help the fire service orient themselves on arrival.
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Ready to talk about fire safety signage or zonal plans? Call our Leicester office on (0116) 251 6983 or use the form to get in touch — we’ll come back to you the same working day.