About CGAP Safety
We make the signs that do not exist yet.
CGAP Safety is a family-owned manufacturer in North Mississippi. We design and produce hyper-specific industrial safety signage on 8x12 rust-resistant aluminum: the MRI quench vent warning, the buried fiber duct bank marker, the electric shock drowning sign for the marina, the lithium battery charging prohibition for the apartment bike room. The hazards that are real, that someone is responsible for posting, and that the big sign catalogs have never gotten around to.
Where this comes from
This company started in the field, not in a design studio. Before signage, the founder spent more than a decade in telecom outside plant and fiber construction: as a wire technician, a project manager on rural broadband builds, and a field services manager running crews across the eastern United States. That is years of standing in utility vaults, walking duct bank routes, working substation fences and pole lines, and watching what happens at the point where somebody decides whether to open a hatch or set down a pallet.
Most of the signs in our catalog exist because of a specific moment on a specific site where the right sign would have helped and did not exist. We kept a list. Then we started making them.
Why aluminum, and only aluminum
Every sign we make is .065 rust-resistant aluminum with UV-stable inks and pre-drilled mounting holes. We do not sell vinyl decals, laminated paper, or thin plastic, because we have watched all three peel off a vault lid, fade to pink on the south side of a building, and crack on a barricade in the first winter.
A safety sign has one job, which is to still be legible on the day it matters. That day might be five years after it went up, in the rain, to someone who was never at the safety meeting. Aluminum is the material that is still there.
Who buys from us
Roughly half of what we ship goes to businesses: municipalities and public works departments, electric and telecom utilities, contractors, hospitals and imaging centers, plants, property managers, and marinas. The other half goes to people with a dock, a shop, a barn, or a rental property and a hazard they want posted properly.
We take purchase orders, net terms, and tax-exempt orders, and we build custom signs and kits for facilities that need something the catalog does not cover. Get in touch if that is you.
The guides
We publish thirty guides on posting requirements, from OSHA's most-cited standards to MRI zoning to what a No Drone Zone sign can legally do. They are written against the actual standards, they are honest about what is required versus what is good practice, and they are free with no email required. If you are trying to figure out what to post and why, start there.
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