BSI 21/30362309 DC

This document specifies the principles governing the design and application of signs and plans used to create a natural disaster safety way guidance system, which help people evacuate to safety areas or place of refuge in the case of natural disasters, for example, tsunami, flood, debris flows, steep slope failures, landslides, tornados, large scale fire, volcano.

This standard provides guidance on the selection and use of safety signs conforming to ISO 7010, public information symbols conforming to ISO 7001, and text on evacuation route signs, places of refuge and evacuation plan for information of particular natural disasters. Guidance on the design, location, mounting positions and maintenance of the signs and plan signs are also provided.

This document does not apply to the determination of the need for natural disaster safety way guidance. This standard assumes that the risk assessment or requirements of an enforcing authority has established the need for such natural disaster safety way guidance systems. This document does not apply to retroreflective road signs.