RE: Placement of cautions in procedures

["Jones, Donna" <DJones -at- zebra -dot- com>]

Gene, you're brilliant! Something like that could satisfy the legal requirements of putting the caution before the instructions and could be implemented without us having to redesign our template (a giant bonus).

I never thought to put a summary of the step on the line with the step number. Some of us discussed putting something along the lines of "Read the following caution before proceeding" on that line, but we thought that statement was kind of lame. I like your idea better, and if that doesn't cover all of the bases, I don't know what would.

Thanks for the idea!  :-)
Donna



-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]

I would do it like this:

1.  Positioning the laser
     -------------------------------------------------------
      ! CAUTION ! <lazer hazard symbol>
      Do not look directly into the laser beam.
     -------------------------------------------------------
     Position the laser etc., etc., ...

2.  Next instruction.

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