1. ANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors • New Directions 2012

3. munsell.com/munsell-ansi-color-standards

4. Title 49 CFR Part The Code of Federal Regulations includes PMS numbers for safety colors for hazard warning labels. These formulas were placed into the CFR in
Label specifications - colors

5. ANSI CFR PMS 186 PMS 485 PMS 151 PMS 152 PMS 109 PMS 109

6. Why Change PMS formulas
Why Change PMS formulas? Credible Harmonize with Federal Regulations Conforms to Canadian TDG Regulations CFR Part specifies Munsell notations for safety colors that are identical to ANSI Z535.1

7. Appendix A to 49 CFR Part

8. ANSI Safety Color Chart

9. Safety Colors? These colors do not indicate a hazard level and
should be removed
from the Safety Color
Chart and Table 1.

10. Safety color
chart with PMS
formulas from
Title 49 CFR
Part
and equivalent
grayscale value
for each safety
color

11. Safety color formulas in proposed Annex C this image uses current PMS
formulas from color chart

12. -Heightened awareness-
New Safety Color?
-Heightened awareness-
PMS 382

13. Change proposal - ANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors
Basic and brief colorimetry descriptions that are relative to explaining Tables and Figures. It is beyond the scope of this standard to teach colorimetry.
Illustrate color boundaries on the Chromaticity Diagram
• Standard safety colors
• Fluorescent safety colors
• ANSI/ISO boundaries
Provide color formulas for a variety of media including
ISO safety colors.
Illustrated Munsell, the historical basis for safety colors