Oxygen in use sign

Oxygen and open flames can be a hazardous mix, making clear reminders essential for safety. With an oxygen-in-use sign, you can caution staff, visitors, and patients to avoid smoking and other potential hazards while around oxygen sources. Oxygen-in-use signs should be placed anywhere oxygen tanks and other sources are located. These hanging or magnetic backing signs feature bright white text contrasted against a vibrant red background, making them conspicuous and well understood no matter where they are installed. In addition, most signs for oxygen-in-use display no smoking symbols to illustrate further the necessity to extinguish any open flames at the risk of fire. Place them on door frames, beds, or tanks. But please be aware that magnetic signs are only for temporary use.

Choosing Your “Oxygen-in-Use, No Smoking” Sign

At HeathcareSigns.com, we’re all about giving you options, carrying many items in our oxygen signage collection. When selecting your “No Smoking, Oxygen-in-Use” sign, you can choose from a variety of layouts and materials, including signs that hang from patient room door handles and magnetic signs that can be attached to metal doors, medical equipment, and beds.

Our oxygen signs come with and without “no smoking” graphics to fit your preference and in five convenient sizes made from durable and easy-to-clean Lexan plastic. When you purchase your items, let us know your customization preferences.

Where Should “Oxygen-in-Use” Signs be placed?

An oxygen-in-use sign should always be placed in a visible location wherever oxygen is actively used or stored to alert staff, patients, and passersby of potential hazards. Common placement areas of oxygen use signs include doors to patients' rooms where oxygen therapy is being administered, including at home, storage rooms for oxygen tanks, and near medical equipment involving oxygen.

These signs should be positioned at eye level in places with high visibility to effectively communicate the presence of oxygen and reinforce no-smoking policies for safety.