AS 1743-1992

Specifies full dimensional and related details for the manufacture of standard road signs, including artwork for the signs and, where appropriate, symbolic components. It includes examples for signs such as guide signs and street name signs, which have to be individually designed. Appendices give further guidance on the design of guide and service signs, and examples of retroreflective and fluorescent sheeting by means of colour chips. Holders of the 1989 edition of AS 1743 may update their copy of the Standard by using Supplement 1 to AS 1743-1989. When the loose-leaf pages from the Supplement are inserted into the 1989 edition, the Standard becomes identical to the 1992 edition.

This Standard specifies full dimensional and related details for the manufacture of standard road signs provided for in AS 1742, and includes artwork for the signs and where appropriate, symbolic components.NOTE: Authorities responsible for the erection of signs are not encouraged to develop signs for their own use. However, there will be instances where there is no suitable standard sign. In such cases, the relevant State road authority should be contacted to determine whether such a sign is already in use. If a new sign is to be developed, it should comply with the design requirements specified in this Standard for the particular sign classification. If it is considered that the sign could also be required by other authorities, Standards Australia should be advised so that, during the course of its regular review of road signs, it can take all new developments into account with a view to their possible inclusion in the relevant Standards. It is most important that the proliferation of signs with differing designs of legend, symbol or background, essentially for the same purpose, is minimized.

First published as AS E36-1960.
Revised and redesignated AS 1743-1975.
Second edition 1989.
Third edition 1992.