Guiding People Efficiently
Larger facilities such as university campuses can present complex navigation challenges to visitors and students alike, from parking spaces that are spread out over many acres and miles, to multiple buildings with multiple entrances. Facilities managers, with the help of a sign expert, can create effective solutions that include wayfinding signs so employees, students and visitors can more easily access campus buildings.
Enhancing Navigation and Wayfinding
Clear, well-placed signs and graphics can significantly improve wayfinding, reducing confusion and saving time for both employees and visitors. Facilities management signage solutions include the following:
- Exterior Building Signs: These visuals help guide people to the correct building or entrance quickly.
- Directional Signs: Strategically placed signs direct individuals to key areas such as public toilets, exits and meeting rooms.
- Digital Directories: Electronic kiosks provide real-time updates and information, enhancing navigation both day and night.
- Wayfinding Signs: Wayfinding signs help visitors and customers better navigate a location, making exits and entrances easier to find and keep traffic flow under control.
Comprehensive Safety Signage for Enhanced Protection
Custom signage communicates important emergency procedures and conveys a sense of security and responsibility at facilities. Not only can these signs warn people about dangerous areas, hazardous materials or high voltage, but custom signs and graphics can also include your facility logos or colours, as well as direct and guide people to important first aid kits or resuscitation devices.
Keeping Occupants and Visitors Safe
Custom signs and graphics play a crucial role in helping to meet required accessibility, safety and environmental standards. Maintaining compliance with local and national safety regulations is a top priority for facilities managers. Safety signage solutions include:
- Public Toilet and Disability Signage: These signs can be incorporated using your brand colours and include Braille and raised characters to make navigating to public toilets easier for visitors.
- Room Identification Signs: Label rooms and spaces, such as offices, gyms and accommodation rooms, with tactile text and Braille.
- Directional Signs: Guide individuals to key areas within a facility, such as fire exits, lifts and wheelchair-accessible routes.
- Regulatory Signs: "No Smoking" or "Authorised Personnel Only” communicate site rules and help comply with regulatory standards.
- Emergency Procedure Signs: Display custom signs that communicate emergency procedures, helping occupants know what to do in case of an emergency.
Creating a More Engaged and Productive Workplace
Custom visuals convey safety and brand standards but they are also important measures to help retain employees, build company culture and maintain shared values. From corporate headquarters to manufacturing facilities, signs often serve as the first impression of a brand or business.
Instilling Trust and Helping Everyone Feel Welcome
Signs are often the first interaction people have with a brand, whether in a warehouse setting, at a hospital or public administration building. Where ageing signs can convey a lack of professionalism, new signage can convey a trustworthy, welcoming environment and attract new and potential customers. Additional signage includes:
- Exterior Building Signs: Create a positive first impression for visitors and employees with well-lit, easily identifiable signage, making it easier for customers to find you and navigate your facility.
- Murals and Wall Graphics: Use large-scale graphics to create an engaging and inspiring atmosphere that reflects your brand’s values and culture in common shared spaces and in entryways.
- Directional Signs: Help visitors and employees navigate your facility easily, improving their overall experience while maintaining an orderly, safe location.
Transform Your Facility Today
Remember, your facility can communicate positive messages without ever saying a word with signage and graphics. Strategically placed signs ensure visitors can easily find public toilets, entrances and exits, while branded disability signage can be incorporated into your interior signage plan. Custom signs and visual solutions can be leveraged to help ease some of the stress and result in increasing a facility’s overall efficiency. Reach out to FASTSIGNS today to discover new ways to transform your facility with custom signs and graphics.