ISO 17080:2005

INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 17080
First edition
2005-10-15

Manually portable agricultural and
forestry machines and powered lawn and
garden equipment — Design principles
for single-panel product safety labels
Tracteurs et matériels agricoles et forestiers portatifs et matériels à
moteur pour jardins et pelouses — Principes de conception des
étiquettes de sécurité de produit à encadré unique




Reference number
ISO 17080:2005(E)
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ISO 17080:2005(E)
Foreword
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ISO 17080 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 23, Tractors and machinery for agriculture and
forestry, Subcommittee SC 14, Operator controls, operator symbols and other displays, operator manuals.
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ISO 17080:2005(E)
Introduction
There is need for a standardized system for the communication of specific safety information on products, and
ISO 17080 helps meet that need by providing formats for single-panel product safety labels that can be used
to fulfil the requirements of both the product and its user.
The formats for single-panel product safety labels presented in this International Standard incorporate the use
of geometric shapes, colours and hazard pictorials (graphical symbols) to communicate safety information,
efficiently, across language barriers.
Education is an essential part of any system of safety information. Because the amount of information
necessary to enable a product to be operated or serviced safely could well be more than is able to be
conveyed in a product safety label, collateral material (e.g. product literature, installation manual, operator's
manual, service manual, etc.) can be used to supplement product safety labels and provide the user with
additional safety information.

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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 17080:2005(E)

Manually portable agricultural and forestry machines and
powered lawn and garden equipment — Design principles for
single-panel product safety labels
1 Scope
This International Standard establishes principles and gives requirements for the design of single-panel
product safety labels intended to be permanently affixed to manually portable agricultural and forestry
machines and powered lawn and garden equipment. The main usage of these labels is on machines and
equipment where the available space for locating product safety information is very limited, and where multi-
panel labels are not necessary for conveying the essential safety messages.
2 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
2.1
hazard
source of potential injury to a person
2.2
panel
area of a product safety label that has a distinctive background colour different from adjacent areas of the
label, or which is clearly delineated by a border
2.3
multi-panel product safety label
product safety label that uses more than one panel to communicate the safety message
NOTE See ISO 11684.
2.4
product safety label
label on a product that informs the observer of one or more hazards and/or describes the safety precautions
or actions required to avoid the hazard(s)
NOTE A product safety label communicates a hazardous situation, a precaution to avoid a hazard, and/or a result of
not avoiding a hazard.
2.5
safety colour
colour with special properties to which a safety meaning is attributed
2.6
single-panel product safety label
product safety label that uses one panel to communicate the safety message
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3 Safety colours and contrast colours
3.1 Purposes
There are two basic purposes for using specific colours on a product safety label. First, the use of colour
rapidly draws attention to the product safety label so that it is easily noticed. Second, safety colour coding
serves to identify and give meaning (through training and/or repeated exposure) to the product safety label as
a whole as well as to its component parts.
Product safety labels should be conspicuous on the product. This can be achieved by
⎯ ensuring that the safety colour of the geometric shape is sufficiently distinctive on the product surface to
which the product safety label is affixed, and/or
⎯ adding a border of a specified contrast colour (see 4.4, 4.5, 4.6), and/or
⎯ enclosing the geometric shape within a larger rectangle of white or — for hazard description (warning)
labels — of yellow or white.
3.2 Chromaticity
The chromaticity of the single-panel product safety labels shall be in accordance with Table 1.
Table 1 — Chromaticity of single-panel product safety labels
Chromaticity coordinates of corner points determining permitted colour area
for standard illuminant D65 and CIE 2° standard observer
Colour
1 2 3 4
x 0,660 0,610 0,700 0,735
Red
y 0,340 0,340 0,250 0,265
x 0,494 0,470 0,493 0,522
Yellow
y 0,505 0,480 0,457 0,477
x 0,140 0,160 0,160 0,140
Blue
y 0,140 0,140 0,160 0,160
x 0,305 0,335 0,325 0,295
White
y 0,315 0,345 0,355 0,325
x 0,385 0,300 0,260 0,345
Black
y 0,355 0,270 0,310 0,395
NOTE The values for red, yellow, blue and white correspond to the values for ordinary materials given in ISO 3864-1:2002, Table 3,
while those for black correspond to the values in ISO 3864-1:2002, Table 2.
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4 Single-panel product safety labels
4.1 Uses of label
A single-panel product safety label can be used alone to describe a hazard, a prohibited action, or a
mandatory action. In many cases, both hazard description and hazard avoidance information must be
communicated for the same hazard. A multi-panel product safety label (see ISO 11684) is appropriate in such
cases. Alternatively, it is possible to use two or more single-panel product safety labels in conjunction with one
another. For example, a single-panel hazard description (warning) product safety label may be placed
adjacent to a single-panel mandatory action product safety label and/or single-panel prohibited action product
safety label.
4.2 Types of label
There are three types of single-panel product safety label
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