Effects of Symbol-And Wording-Color of Three Hazardous Materlal Labels, Surround Color, and Training on Users'Visual Identification Performance under Different Ambient Illuminance

危害標示的圖形文字顔色、背景顔色及訓練在不同照明下對於受試者視覺辨識績效的影響

10.29977/JCIIE.200411.0009

王安祥(An-Hsiang Wang)；姬純真(Chun-Cheng Chi)；胡芫彰(Yuan-Chang Hu)

危害標示 ； 圖形文字顔色 ； 背景顔色 ； 訓練 ； 照明 ； Hazardous material label ； Symbol-and wording-color ； Surround color ； Training ； Ambient illuminance

工業工程學刊

21卷6期（2004 / 11 / 01）

597 - 605

英文

本研究旨在探討三種危害標示的圖形文字顔色（黑色及白色）、背景顔色（白色及褐色）及訓練（訓練前及訓練後）在兩種照明（100及800lx）下對於受試者視覺辨識績效的影響。研究結果顯示易燃氣體（紅色背景）、非易燃氣體（綠色背景）及禁水性特質（藍色背景）三種危害標示的圖形文字顔色及是否實施訓練對於受試者視覺辨識績效具有顯著的影響。受試者在黑色的圖形文字顔色下有較佳的視覺辨識績效，而訓練也可以使受試者産生較好的視覺辨識績效。因此，使用易燃氣體、非易燃氣體及禁水性特質等三種危害標示時，建議實施訓練並採用黑色的圖形文字顔色以提昇使用者視覺辨識績效及增加其對於危害的警覺性。

This study investigated the effects of symbol-and wording-color(black and white) of three hazardous material labels, surround color(white and brown), and training(before and after training) on subjects' visual identification performance under different ambient illuminance (100 and 800 lx). Results of this study showed that symbol-and wording-color and training were significantly factors for subjects' visual identification performance on Labels of Flammable gases (red background), Non-flammable gases (green background), and Dangerous when wet substances (blue background), Subjects' visual identification performance was significantly better when the symbol-and wording-color was black than white, and was also significantly better after subjects received labels training. Consequently, training and the black symbol-and wording-color are recommended as using the hazardous labels of Flammable gases, Non-flammable gases, and Dangerous when wet substances to increase individuals' visual identification performance and to alert individuals to the hazard' severity.

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