IS 2379:1990 Pipeline Colour Code - Visual Handbook (with Amendment No. 1)
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Visual clause-by-clause handbook of IS 2379:1990 (Pipelines - Identification - Colour Code) with Amendment No. 1. Covers ground colours, colour bands, hazard markings, lettering, flow arrows, all five colour tables, a quick reference and a site marking checklist.
By Saurabh Rawat · Published 2026-09-28 · Updated 2026-11-13
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I N D I A N S T A N D A R D · V I S U A L H A N D B O O K PIPELINE COLOUR CODE Identification of pipelines by ground colours, colour bands, hazard marking and lettering — clause by clause. IS 2379 : 1990 First Revision · Reaffirmed 2006 incl. Amendment No. 1 (May 2007) T H E E H S G U R U
I S 2 3 7 9 : 1 9 9 0 · ( R e a f f i r m e d 2 0 0 6 ) Indian Standard PIPELINES — IDENTIFICATION — COLOUR CODE ( First Revision ) First Reprint OCTOBER 1992 UDC 621.643.006.8 : 621 - 777.6 © BIS 1991 BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS MANAK BHAVAN, 9 BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG, NEW DELHI 110002 March 1991 · Price Group 5 [MED 17 : Chemical Engineering Plants and Related Equipment] Disclaimer and source note. This handbook re-presents the complete text of IS 2379 : 1990 (with Amendment No. 1, May 2007) in THE EHS GURU’s visual layout. The published BIS standard remains the only authoritative text. Colour dots beside colour names are indicative screen/print renderings of the IS 5 shades — always match paint against the IS 5 shade card. Figures 1–6 have been redrawn in vector form from the printed figures (same content, colours, labels and dimensions) because the source scans are low-resolution; Fig. 7 is …
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