Re: Placement of cautions in procedures

["Janet Swisher" <swisher -at- enthought -dot- com>]

"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> wrote:
> Caution: The next step requires that you wear protective eyewear. The 
> C-clip is
> under tension and could fly off. 3. Remove the C-clip from the end of the 
> auxiliary roller shaft...
> 

In addition to a caution before each dangerous step, in a case like this
where the caution involves additional safety equipment (protective eyewear),
a blanket caution at the beginning of the procedure, listing all required
safety items, seems like a good idea. That way the users know to get their
safety glasses before they start disassembling the thingamajig, rather than
having to stop in the middle to find them.

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Janet Swisher
Senior Technical Writer
Enthought, Inc.
1-512-536-1057



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