How Do You Know Our Labels Are Compliant?

It’s a fair question.

As a former technician, ILS Engineer, and technical writer, spending my time buried in standards, specifications, and technical documents isn’t exactly new territory for me.

I know. I’m an absolute party animal.

The good news is that somebody has to read them, and we’d rather it be us than you.

We regularly review the relevant Australian Standards and industry requirements to make sure the products we’re selling are compliant and up to date. Standards change, interpretations evolve, and sometimes finding the answer you’re looking for feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. But that’s all part of the process.

The last thing we want is for you to purchase a product, with implicit faith, and then find yourself failing an audit. That’s a quick way to lose trust, and trust is something we take seriously.

Some of the standards we regularly review include:

• AS/NZS 4777.1:2024

• AS/NZS 5033:2021

• AS/NZS 5139:2019

• AS/NZS 3000:2018

• AS 1319:1994

And sometimes compliance comes down to details that seem ridiculously small. But the devil is in the details…

Take our switchboard labels, for example. They’re only 19mm x 19mm, but the standard requires a minimum text height of 5mm (for upper case text). When you’re trying to fit three lines of text into a square smaller than a postage stamp, every millimetre counts.

You can imagine the amount of time we’ve spent scrolling through fonts, measuring characters, printing test samples, squinting at rulers, just to make sure the label gets a compliant tick in the box.

It’s not glamorous, but it’s important.

Because anyone can print a label.

Our job is to make sure the label you’re installing has been designed with compliance in mind, so you can focus on the job at hand instead of worrying about whether your signage will pass inspection.

We’ll keep reading the standards so you don’t have to.

You’re welcome.

*That said, if you do experience an issue, please get in touch and we'll do our best to rectify it. We are, of course, only human.