Editing Emergency exit (section)

===Signage===
{{Main|Exit sign}}
[[File:Evac chair.jpg|thumb|upright|Sign for an emergency down stairs evacuation device for disabled people]]The UK Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 define a fire safety sign as an illuminated sign or acoustic signal that provides information on escape routes and emergency exits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityfire.co.uk/news/fire-safety-signs-law-meaning/|title=Fire Safety Signs: The Law and Their Meaning - City Fire Protection - Blog|first=City Fire|last=Protection|date=22 January 2013}}</ref> Well-designed emergency exit signs are necessary for emergency exits to be effective.

Fire escape signs usually display the word "EXIT" or the equivalent word in the local language with large, well-lit, green letters, or the green pictorial "running-man" symbol<ref>[http://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:grs:7010:2:E002 ISO 7010:2011 — Graphical symbols]</ref> developed and adopted in [[Japan]] around 1980<ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/life/signs/2010/03/the_big_red_word_vs_the_little_green_man.html?yahoo=y "The Big Red Word vs. the Little Green Man"], Julia Turner, March 2010, Slate.com</ref> and introduced in 2003 by [[ISO 7010]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.connectingindustry.com/factoryequipment/the-iso-7010-safety-standard-and-what-it-means-for-you.aspx|title=The ISO 7010 safety standard and what it means for you - Factory Equipment|website=www.connectingindustry.com|access-date=2012-08-28|archive-date=2015-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210221/http://www.connectingindustry.com/factoryequipment/the-iso-7010-safety-standard-and-what-it-means-for-you.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> Pictorial green "running-man" sign is mandatory in Japan, [[European Union]], [[South Korea]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] and [[Canada]],<ref>[http://www.canadianpropertymanagement.ca/TraditionalExitSignChangestoRunningMan.aspx Traditional Signs to EXIT in Favour of the Running Man ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228073449/http://www.canadianpropertymanagement.ca/TraditionalExitSignChangestoRunningMan.aspx |date=February 28, 2013 }}</ref> and increasingly becoming common elsewhere.

Some states in the [[United States]] currently require the exit signs to be colored red, despite the usage of color red in signage usually implies hazards, prohibited actions or stop, while the color green implies safe place/actions or to proceed. Older building code in Canada required red exit signs, but no new installation is allowed.