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Defining the parameters that determine the visual perception performance and the appearance of occupational health and safety pictograms

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  • Engin Uğur
Engin Uğur
Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Department, Bolu, Turkey

Published 2025-04-01

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Keywords

  • occupational health and safety,
  • pictogram, vision,
  • visual perception,
  • graphic design

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Uğur, E. (2025). Defining the parameters that determine the visual perception performance and the appearance of occupational health and safety pictograms. Journal of Graphic Engineering and Design, 15–25. Retrieved from https://jged.uns.ac.rs/index.php/jged/article/view/1670

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Abstract

Originally developed as a means of transmitting information and warnings by eliminating language and cultural differences in public spaces such as airports, train stations, bus stations, hospitals, stadiums, pictograms have turned into visuals that we encounter in every aspect of our lives today. They are the visual heroes behind the harmonious movement of today's fast and complex pace of life. They deserve all kinds of praise in terms of the mission they have set out. Nowadays, which we call the digital age or the age of visual communication, visuals are produced very intensively in every field, but they are thrown into the visual landfill very quickly. However, it is necessary to keep the pictograms that will be used in a vital issue such as occupational health and safety out of this structure. For occupational health and safety, pictograms are symbols that allow employees and visitors to move safely. These pictograms are used in workplaces to indicate safety rules, instructions and warnings. These pictorams, which are of vital importance for human health and the prevention of occupational accidents, should be easily visible and quickly perception. Although pictograms for occupational health and safety have been standardized and made mandatory by legal regulations, they are produced in very different design options as a result of advanced graphic and printing capabilities. In addition, the new technologies that are being used in dynamic business life reveal the need to prepare informative, stimulating texts, signs and pictograms together with these technologies. In the field of occupational health and safety, whether it is designed for the first time or an old pictogram is revised, the form, size, composition, color and background elements that determine visual perception performance must be evaluated separately. Another important issue is that those responsible for the enterprise show the necessary sensitivity to the physical conditions that will make it easier to see the pictograms. Although it has been prepared at the highest level in terms of graphic design and printing techniques, it cannot have any function in unsuitable location and lighting conditions.

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