The signs you look after

  • Site entrance, car park and external wayfinding signs
  • Department, ward, clinic and room signs
  • Internal wayfinding: directories, hanging signs and colour-coded routes
  • Fire safety, infection control and health and safety signs
  • Accessibility signs and tactile or braille signs
Signcensus on a laptop: a shopping centre floor plan with numbered sign pins, and the details of fire exit sign GF-007, marked as needing an update
A shopping centre's ground floor in Signcensus, with a fire exit sign flagged for replacement. Demo data.

What gets in the way

  • Departments move and wayfinding falls behind, so patients and visitors get lost
  • Large sites with many buildings and floors and no single sign list
  • Estates teams fielding sign requests with no record of what's already there
  • Wayfinding reviews that start with a full survey every time

How Signcensus helps

  • Survey floor by floor and record each sign on the building plans
  • Use sign types for wayfinding, department, safety and accessibility signs
  • Find every sign that names a department before it moves
  • Export the schedule for the sign contractor

Every sign is pinned to its plan with photos, a sign type, a status and your own fields, and every change is logged with who made it and when. See all features.

Where to start

Start with the main entrance routes and the busiest outpatient areas. Read how to run a wayfinding audit and accessible signage in the UK.

Questions

Can we find every sign that mentions a department?
Yes. Record the sign's message or department in a field, then filter by it to list every sign that will need to change when the department moves.