Floor Marking Tape

Colour Coding and Width

On a floor, colour carries the meaning. Common practice uses yellow for walkways and general boundaries, white for machine and equipment positions, red for scrap and non-conforming material, green for finished goods and safe zones, navy for raw material and work in progress, and orange for material awaiting inspection. Yellow-black and red-white patterns mark hazards and areas needing caution.

Width follows what the line has to say: 5 cm suits rack, bench and equipment outlines, while 10 cm reads better on walkways, forklift routes and main aisles. Permanent lines are usually 10 cm, temporary layouts 5 cm.

• Yellow 5/10 cm — walkways and general area boundaries
• Red and red-white 5/10 cm — restricted zones and caution lines
• Yellow-black 5/10 cm — hazard and warning areas
• Green, navy, orange and white — stock, product and equipment zones
• 5 cm for equipment and rack outlines; 10 cm for aisles and forklift routes

5S and Floor Layout

Floor marking tape is the visible output of 5S and lean work: every item gets a defined place on the floor, walkways are separated from forklift routes, and the clear space in front of fire equipment and emergency exits is protected. Its advantage over painted lines is that it goes down within the same shift, with no drying time, and comes up again when the layout changes.

For adhesion life the floor must be clean, dry and dust-free, and the tape pressed down along its run. On heavy forklift routes, a wider tape and angled cuts at corners delay lifting at the edges.