Excerpt from Color in the Health Care Environment: Proceedings of a Special Workshop Held at the National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 16, 1976
For over 50 years the National Bureau of Standards has directed a substantial quantity of time and expertise to developing requirements and methods for the measurement of color. Recently, this activity has been applied to the standardization of safety’ colors that are now being widely utilized by other government agencies as well as by the voluntary standards community to ensure the greatest degree of safety in the workplace, on our highways, and to the general public. The application of color theory must necessarily include consideration of color blindness and color contrast, in addition to the traditional and well-recognized meanings for color such as yellow for caution and red for stop.
We are now faced with further challenges related to color specification, which on the surface appear much more elusive and difficult. At present, the selection and specification of color in certain areas of our manmade environment, as buildings, is largely related to anecdotal evidence of effectiveness or only to changing styles and the variable tastes of individual designers. While this condition may only result in superficial displeasure of users, in some instances it results in critically altered functions and goals.
Medical facilities represent perhaps the most critical category of buildings in need of proper criteria. The requirements for accurate medical diagnosis, exacting surgical performance, and other therapeutic and rehabilitation services set medical facilities apart from other buildings vis-a-vis their critical need to be effective.
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