A collection of photographs of safety signs around the UK has been taken and compiled in a book called "Attention please" by The Manifesto Club, a London-based libertarian campaign group. The signs highlight a plethora of 'hazards' such as uneven beach surfaces, the potential of cemetery memorials to harm and the need to use escalators safely. A double-decker bus, it is claimed, displays 24 separate cautions. According to The Telegraph, the convenor of the Manifesto Club Josie Appleton said: "This collection of cones, safety tape and caution notices, which hang like Christmas decorations off the urban architecture, provides no useful information about hazards. Instead they are only an excuse to regulate public behaviour." Rather than effectively highlighting hazards, the safety signs are "swamping public space" and "ugly, patronising and bossy", says Appleton. Source: Telegraph, 2 July 2009. tinyurl.com/luo4he10 July 2009
Public safety signs "ugly, patronising and bossy"
A collection of photographs of safety signs around the UK has been taken and compiled in a book called "Attention please" by The Manifesto Club, a London-based libertarian campaign group. The signs highlight a plethora of 'hazards' such as uneven beach surfaces, the potential of cemetery memorials to harm and the need to use escalators safely. A double-decker bus, it is claimed, displays 24 separate cautions. According to The Telegraph, the convenor of the Manifesto Club Josie Appleton said: "This collection of cones, safety tape and caution notices, which hang like Christmas decorations off the urban architecture, provides no useful information about hazards. Instead they are only an excuse to regulate public behaviour." Rather than effectively highlighting hazards, the safety signs are "swamping public space" and "ugly, patronising and bossy", says Appleton. Source: Telegraph, 2 July 2009. tinyurl.com/luo4he
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