Push the floor

What do you do when you find a sign on the floor that says push.  Well this one seems to have fallen from a a double door.  The reason a push sign was necessary in the first place as a retro fit, was that those double doors had grab handles that positively encouraged pulling....

Strictly No Exit

As if the words "No Exit" were not clear and explicit enough, here it's "Strictly" no exit.  That does rather imply that a "No Exit" sign really just means "It's OK to exit sometimes".

Sit down and put your feet up?

From a train.  This two pairs of seats opposite each other with the table in between....

The picture of the sign might seem to be encouraging the whole...sit down and put your feet up...while the words of course are discouraging that.  Culturally we probably get this "no feet on seats thing" anyway.  

It's often more typical to show the action that is being discouraged and put it in it's own frame and put a line through it....no smoking for example....cigarette in a red circle with a thick red line across.

Nice that's it's positive language with a request to do do something...."keep feet of seats" rather than the more negative "Please do not put feet on the seats".  More naturally to think the positive action than the negative action and reverse it....

Emergency Exit Exclusion

Here's some sign jumble at the local hospital.  This is coded the entry/exit for ambulance crew to directly access the Accident and Emergency Department.

So the "Ambulance Staff Only" sign is properly obscured by the emergency exit sign.  It might just raise the question if it's the emergency exit for Ambulance staff only....And with Red signage, that seriously instructive colour of red traffic lights.

An then there's the ordering of the signs.  So first it's emergency exit, and then it's Ambulance staff only....and signs or instructions then to follow on logically from the previous ones....so emergency exit but exclusively for ambulance staff.

In reality the emergency exit sign will do it's job in all probability.....Can't help but wonder if that lack of clarity in managing the messaging - especially important ones like emergency exit -  inspires enough confidence when it comes to actually managing an emergency.....

Norovirus Notice

Here's a printed page stuck to the entrance doors of the local hospital.

The sign is rather scruffy and it's dated nearly a year ago.  So how much credence will it get?

Wonder how much is the credibility reduced by it's slightly dog eared nature and it's rather historical date stamp.  Does this relate to last winter, that's been and gone, as has the subsequent spring and summer....

Given these viruses can have serious health consequences, and this is the main communication with visitors on the matter, whether this needs to have more presentation and temporal credibility....