✓ Correct answer: A. Communicate hazardsWorkplace health and safety signs exist to alert workers to hazards and the precautions they must take, ensuring risks are clearly understood.
Why the other options are incorrect:
• Decorate the workplace: Aesthetic decoration is not a recognised function of safety signage; signs must convey meaningful safety information.
• Provide employee benefits: Employee benefit schemes are entirely unrelated to the role of safety signs.
• Encourage teamwork: Fostering collaborative working is not a purpose of health and safety signage.
• Promote company image: Building a company's public profile is not what safety signs are designed to achieve.
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