Re: "always read and follow the instructions"

["Holly Steele" <hsteele1 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Although designed for joke purposes, I have used this warning label
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Holly

2008/6/3 Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>:

> Yes.  The danger/warning/caution heirarchy of
> warnings is industry-standard, though normally
> "danger" means potentially lethal, "warning"
> means potential injury and "caution" means
> potential product or system damage. An exploding
> bomb is the ISO standard symbol for explosives,
> but I'm not aware of a symbol that uses a bomb
> with a burning fuse; did your company make
> that one up on their own?
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Hood" <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>
> > Yes. Do you have conventions about different alert
> > levels? In one projects I worked on, each procedure
> > might include some sort of note to alert the reader to
> > possible hazards.
> >
> > We used a "Danger" note (with a little graphic of a
> > lightning bolt to represent a shock hazard) when doing
> > something wrong might cause physical hard. We had a
> > "Warning" note with a graphic of a stop sign when a
> > mistake could result in damage to the system. The last
> > was a "Caution" that included an oversize exclamation
> > mark, to indicate where a mistake could cause loss of
> > data or communication.
> >
> > Before 9/11/2001, the "Danger" note had a graphic of a
> > little round bomb with a burning fuse. The boss made
> > us change it the next day.
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