Re: Fw: Why do we put so many warnings in our manuals?

[Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com>]

letoured -at- together -dot- net wrote:
>
> Actually in some industries the writers do have to think 
> ahead of the user,and write accordingly -- because of the 
> legal liabilities, the costs of equipment damage that can 
> run into multi-millions, downtime (for machines and systems 
> that have a value of hundreds of thousands of dollars per 
> hour), and the possible loss of life, not to mention ethics.
> 

I urge those of you who've never seen them to check out 
this link to "Scientific Truth in Product Warning Labels":

http://quark.physics.uwo.ca/~harwood/humor14.html

-- Janice


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