Starting from a site where we do not have any lubricant colour coding or labelling system, is there any "Best" practice or good ideas that people have that can help me set up a standard for our site. If there exists a psuedo standard I can start from that would be much better than trying to reinvent the wheel. We are using the oil safe containers.

If your lubricant providor has color coded lubricant tags available you could use those as a basis for your coding. I scanned the tags from our lubricant providor and made larger tank labels to match the tags. The plastic tags we put on the equipment, oil safe containers and oil storage tank dispensing valves.

We also use Oil Safe containers for our dispensing of oils.
We have adopted the following colour coding system for the oil safe lid colours.

Storage - Dispensing Lid Colour / Oil Type
Yellow / Gear Oils
Red / Auto Transmission Oil
Blue / Hydraulic mineral oil
Green / Circulating Oil
Dark Green / Turbine Oil
Black / Spec. purpose synthetic oil
Orange / Transformer Oil
Purple / Machine Tool Table-way & Hydraulic Oil
Grey / Internal Combustion Engine Oil
Tan / Flushing Oil

We then label the appropiate product code onto the bottle indicating
Viscosity and Product name etc.

GM

You may contact to Brady Corporation. They can help you in setting up a Visually Instructive Plant (http://www.bradyid.com)