An example of the messaging on this kind of tape would be “Gas Line Below”. While they're often made from polyethylene just like barricade tape, they can be in any color which might catch an excavator's attention. These tapes are called "non detectable underground tape". Underground Tape: Sometimes gas lines or other underground risks must be marked with tape in case of excavation, but do not need to be visible from the surface.This makes it clear that the police may be in and out of the perimeter, but pedestrians and passers by should steer clear. For instance the police may secure the perimeter with tape containing messages like “ Crime Scene - Do Not Cross ” or “Police Line - Do Not Cross”. Yellow Crime Scene and Police Tape: Sometimes crime scene perimeters are barricaded off with yellow tape, but the messaging is explicit.Here are some of the other common barricade tapes one might see: These are the most common instances of polyethylene barricade caution tapes. Red tape for instance might say “ Danger - Do Not Enter ” instead of "Caution - Do Not Enter". Danger Tape: Danger tape uses black lettering on top of a r ed polyethylene ribbon instead. The messaging in these cases usually includes the word "Danger" and is meant to escalate the level of warning which might exist with the yellow caution tape alternative. While caution tape is probably used where some risk is present, danger tape is used when there's a more serious risk of hazard.This could include messages like “ Caution - Do Not Enter ” and “ Caution - No Parking ”. Some caution tape takes advantage of the high contrast of black and yellow with diagonal stripes that catch the attention, but otherwise has no messaging at all. Caution Tape: Caution tape tends to use black lettering on a yellow polyethylene ribbon to create a high contrast “Caution” messaging which is easy to see and heightens caution.Typically barricade tape includes two main types:
The misnomer is quite understandable, as "caution tape" is probably the most common type of barricade tape, but it's not the only kind. While "caution tape" refers specifically to the yellow polyethylene tape which contains caution messaging, barricade tape refers to any polyethylene tape, with or without messaging of any kind, put into place to create a barricade around a perimeter and increase caution.
The truth is, what people are often referring to is more accurately called "barricade tape". Just as Americans might be in the habit of using the word "rollerblades" when referring to inline skates of any kind (or a plethora of other hyper-specific misnomers), people have also come to use the term "caution tape" to refer to barricade tapes of any kind. So next time you see some caution tape wrapped around a pallet across to a 2 x 4 and taped to a traffic cone.If you work in a safety or construction industry, you may have heard the term "caution tape" used to refer to a wide variety of barrier messages, even ones which don't include the word "caution". So yes it does matter what type of barricading a company allows onsite and what their barricading best practices are. The consequences of entering an exclusion zone are not so obvious, no platform drop off, no speeding trains, but a worker's tool dropped from a height into an exclusion zone can fatally injure any workers below. A visual barrier needs to go some way in conveying the danger beyond, a yellow line painted on the concrete floor of a train station platform is all that is needed because the consequences and dangers of venturing beyond are obvious.
They need to believe if they enter that area harm could come to them.
Perceived danger is what keeps workers out of dangerous areas, not caution tape and not my barrier. I can already hear people say "it's not important what is used as it is just an indicator of some danger on the other side". Caution tape or safety flagging wrapped around a traffic cone joined to a delineator post joined to a wooden sawhorse barrier is at best a mess and at worst a hazard. The various products used on sites today are a large part of the problem. I have seen onsite safety professionals try repeatedly to enforce the safe barricading practices with limited success at best. How do I know? Because I spent the best part of the last twenty years on construction sites in various roles, some of these roles involved the barricading of unsafe work areas or exclusion zones below workers working at height. We have all seen it, caution tape laying on the ground or blowing in the wind.Ĭonstruction workers have no respect for caution tape or the companies that use it.
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