Fire Extinguisher Icon

The fire extinguisher pictogram — the white flame-and-extinguisher symbol on red, used to mark the position of an extinguisher so it can be found from across a room.

Fire equipment identification is covered by AS 2444. The pictogram does a different job from a text plate on a cupboard door: it is designed to be read quickly, at distance, and by someone who may not read English. In a warehouse or a car park it is usually mounted high so it is visible over racking or parked vehicles.

Four sizes, from 300 x 225mm up to 900 x 600mm landscape, across five materials — from sticker and decal at $7.50, through corflute, polypropylene and composite ACM white, to 1.6mm aluminium. Prices run to $272.16 for the largest aluminium format.

Choose the size from the viewing distance rather than the budget. A 300 x 225mm sign is right beside an extinguisher in an office corridor; in a warehouse where the nearest person may be thirty metres away it is effectively invisible, and the 600 x 450mm or 900 x 600mm format is the one that works.