Why coated-in beats taped-on
Floor tape is the default because it is cheap and instant, and it lifts. A pallet jack wheel catches an edge, a corner peels, somebody re-tapes it, and the cycle repeats a few times a year forever. Coating the marking into the system removes the edge entirely: the colour is part of the same film as the floor around it, at the same level, with no lip for anything to catch. It costs more once and then costs nothing, and it never becomes the tired peeling tape that signals a building nobody maintains.
Where the lines actually go
We set out zoning with whoever runs the floor, not from a drawing, because the drawing rarely matches how the space is used. Traffic aisles get walked at the width a loaded forklift actually needs, machine footprints get marked where the machine is rather than where it was specified, and clearance zones in front of panels and extinguishers get checked against the current code requirement. That conversation takes an hour and prevents the most common regret, which is a beautifully marked floor that describes last year layout.
Colour conventions
There is no single legal colour scheme in a BC industrial building, but there is a widely understood convention worth following, because visitors and new staff read it without training: yellow for physical caution and aisle boundaries, red for fire equipment and emergency stops, and a distinct colour for pedestrian walkways. Consistency inside a building matters more than matching any particular standard, and we will follow whatever scheme your operation already uses.