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Subject:Re: Warnings at front of document From:"Katie Kearns" <katie -dot- kearns -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:41:15 -0800
On 2/28/06, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
>
> In all my past experience with manuals involving safety warnings,
> the safety warnings chapter was always there to add emphasis
> to the importance of the warnings. Of course, my documents all
> involved handling things like nuclear devices, gases so toxic they
> would kill you before you could smell them or unknown biological
> samples.
I've seen the same thing for just simple hardware install guides. I mean,
the potential to electrocute yourself is still there, so legal liked
warnings in multiple places.
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