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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
This document provide guidelines for color codes to indicate severity of hazards in public warnings. There are many different systems are already in use, such as colour state of meteorological condition or former Homeland Security Advisory System , and the standard is intended to be an approach to eliminate confusion due to such differences.
The standard was published in October 2003, splitting off from ISO 3864:1984, which set out design standards and colors of safety signage and merging ISO 6309:1987, Fire protection - Safety signs to create a unique and distinct standard for safety symbols.
Washington does not have known official state colors. No official state colors are listed the state legislature's State Symbols webpage [40] nor in Chapter 1.20 of the Revised Code of Washington (where other official symbols are designated). [41] Some sources list dark green and gold/yellow, the two colors specified for the flag by law since ...
ISO 3864 consists of four parts, that provide more specific and situation specific guidance depending on the application. ISO 3864-1:2011 Part 1: Design principles for safety signs and safety markings [1]
The Standard Color Reference of America was issued in 1915 for the purpose of simplifying color work by standardizing color for the U.S. The card offers a palette for color choice and at the same time help to facilitate the selection of colors. Primarily directed to the textile, fashion and environmental industries.
All these codes are not really encyclopedic in the sense that every hospital/health org/care facilities uses their own standard code (with some exception) - It's impossible to list all the combinations nor do they really serve any real purposes.--Cahk 03:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Similarly to other color standards of the pre-digital era, such as RAL colour standard or British Standard 4800, Federal Standard 595 is a color collection rather than a color space. The standard is built upon a set of color shades where a unique reference number is assigned to each color. This collection is then printed on sample color chips ...