As anyone who has visited a hospital will know, they are big, busy places that can be quite complex, with each corridor and department often looking the same so it’s understandable that people can become lost when visiting. This is why effective hospital signage is important, not just for wayfinding purposes but for maintaining health and safety and compliance.
Effective signage helps to ensure a hospital is safer, more accessible and a welcoming environment for visitors, patients and staff.
There are a variety of different types of hospital signage, each having a different purpose from providing directions, maintaining safety, or communicating essential information.
Directional hospital signs help to guide patients, visitors and staff to specific location within a hospital. These signs have to be clear, potentially colour coded and include universal signs such as arrows or toilets for example. Directional and wayfinding signs can:
Wayfinding signs in hospitals are essential to ensuring people can easily find where they need to go in order make appointments on time, reduce stress and anxiety and reduce interruptions to hospital staff.
Informational signs in hospitals are commonly found in high traffic areas and can help to provide people with essential information about hospital policies, procedures and services, such as:
Emergency signs are vital for hospital safety procedures. Typically green or red with white text or symbols, they direct people in emergency situations or alert of any emergency equipment such as:
Prohibited signs advise of actions or behaviours that aren’t allowed for safety or regulation reasons. They are red circles with a black symbol and sometimes include a diagonal line through. Prohibited signs in hospitals can include no entry, no mobile phones, food or drink, etc.
Service signs for hospitals can help to direct people to facilities and support services on site such as toilets and cafes, pharmacies, parking areas and wheelchair accessible routes. They can help to make visitors who are unfamiliar with the building feel at ease.
Hospital signs are important for ensuring safety, accessibility and smooth functioning, they can educate and inform patients, promote services, and protect from hazards. A hospital with good signage improves visitor experience, reduces stress and improves operational efficiency by reducing staff interruption from people asking for directions. It keeps things moving as people can easily navigate around the hospital.
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