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Keep Your Work Area Tidy Sign printed on a rigid sign board (keep your work area tidy sign printing)

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Outline of an adult standing 1.75 m high

The figure stands 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m). Choose a different size and the drawing redraws to match.

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A Keep Your Work Area Tidy sign speaks to one person at one workstation, which is why Manchester machine shops and joinery benches use it. It is a blue mandatory sign in A4, A3, A2 or A1, made on self-adhesive vinyl, 3mm Foamex or 3mm Dibond. Production is 5 working days before tracked delivery.

  • Full-colour UK printing, produced only once you order
  • Uploaded artwork gets a free check by one of our team (size, bleed, resolution)
  • Send a print-ready PDF, or have us prepare the artwork
  • Sent by courier, or collect from our Manchester office (M8)
Safety Signs

Keep Your Work Area Tidy Sign in Manchester

from £26.82 ISO 7010 M001

Offcuts, swarf and trailing leads cause trips and worse. A sign at each bench makes the rule personal: your area, your job to keep it clear. It works best as a reminder at the end of a task, right where the tools go down.

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The price shown is the price you pay at checkout. UK delivery £7.95, free over £100. Highlands +£10. Islands and Northern Ireland: ask for a price.

Artwork

Design fees are a fixed amount with their own line in the basket, covering every copy of this item. Not ready yet? Order now and upload later: we email you a link.

Running a charity, school, club or place of worship? up to 10% off each orderBusiness? up to 5% off the first order

Delivery £7.95Nothing to pay above £100. Goes by tracked courier, which normally takes 1 to 3 working days once it leaves us (production can be as quick as 2 working days).
Collection from M8Collecting from our Manchester office costs nothing. We email you when the order is waiting.

About this product

"Your" is the important word. A general tidy sign on a corridor wall talks to nobody in particular; this one belongs at the lathe or bench saw.

Inside a Greater Manchester machine shop

In a Bolton engineering firm with a row of CNC machines and manual lathes, swarf builds up fast and leads get strung across the floor to portable tools. Here the sign sits best on the machine guard or the wall at the end of each bench, where an operator faces it while cleaning down. Vinyl at A4 is the usual choice because it sticks flat to a guard panel.

The catch: vinyl will not grip a guard coated in cutting fluid. Degrease the panel and let it dry first, or the corners lift within a week. If the guard is curved or textured, screw a Foamex panel to the nearest wall instead.

How you organise housekeeping is a matter for your own risk assessment; the sign just keeps the expectation visible.

Size and order details

A4 reads from about 8 m and fits a bench. A2, around 17 m, makes sense at the head of a production line where a supervisor wants it seen from the aisle. Dibond is only needed outdoors, such as an open-sided timber store. Prices start at £26.82.

It takes 5 working days to make, and the courier usually delivers 1 to 3 working days later. Delivery comes to £7.95, or free above £100 of goods. To add a station number, typesetting is £15 and a real person checks the file. Collection from our Manchester office (Unit 3, 116 Bury New Road, M8 8EB) is possible once we email that it is ready. More in mandatory signs. Choose a size above.

We work from Manchester and send orders all over the UK. Customers in Manchester and the surrounding suburbs, Trafford Park included, can also pick up from our office once we confirm the order is ready.

Price by size

Listed from the smallest up. Choosing a price sets that size in the buy box for you.

Size3mm Foamex3mm Dibond aluminium compositeself-adhesive vinyl
A4 · 210 × 297 mm
A3 · 297 × 420 mm
A2 · 420 × 594 mm
A1 · 594 × 841 mm

Final prices per item with the lowest-priced options. UK delivery £7.95, free over £100. Choose a price to load it into the price calculator.

Specification

What it is made from, the sizes on offer and how it is finished.

ISO 7010 referenceM001 (General mandatory action sign)
MessageKeep Your Work Area Tidy
Sign typeMandatory
Materials3mm Foamex, 3mm Dibond aluminium composite and self-adhesive vinyl
SizesA4 (210 × 297 mm), A3 (297 × 420 mm), A2 (420 × 594 mm), A1 (594 × 841 mm)
Viewing distanceA4: 8 m, A3: 12 m, A2: 17 m, A1: 24 m
PrintFull colour, single sided
Made byMade to order by Manchester Printed, Manchester, in our workshop or by our UK production partner, depending on the option
SKUMP-SAF-189
PriceThe configurator shows the final price, and checkout matches it.
DeliveryUK mainland £7.95 per order, free over £100. Highlands +£10. Islands and Northern Ireland: ask for a price.
Artwork checkEvery uploaded file is checked by a person for resolution, size and bleed.

What size should I order?

Pick a size people can read from where they will stand. As a cautious rule, using the distance-factor method in ISO 3864-1, allow roughly 1 metre of reading distance per 25 mm of sign height (measured on the shorter side). Check it against your own risk assessment.

SizeCan be read from about
A4 (210 × 297 mm)8 m
A3 (297 × 420 mm)12 m
A2 (420 × 594 mm)17 m
A1 (594 × 841 mm)24 m

Good lighting stretches the reading distance; in dim spots, go a size up.

Your design

Three routes to print-ready artwork. Pick whichever suits you.

Send your own file

Make the PDF at the ordered size plus 3 mm bleed on each edge. Someone on our team looks over every upload, free of charge, before printing starts.

Use the designer

This one needs a ready-made file rather than the designer. Stuck? We can prepare the artwork for you.

Let us do it

Choose typesetting, or a design worked up from your brief, when you reach the artwork step. File set-up advice.

FAQs

Short answers on ordering keep your work area tidy sign in manchester.

Should I order one per machine?

That is how most Greater Manchester workshops do it. One sign per station makes it personal; one on the wall gets ignored.

Will vinyl survive regular wiping?

Yes, on a clean, smooth surface it takes routine wiping without peeling.

What pairs well with it?

PPE symbol stickers on the same guard, so each machine shows both rules together.

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