Safety signs, instructions, and text markups
The safety instructions are structured as below:
- Danger to persons: signal word, safety symbol, text, and shaded grey.
- Property damage: signal word and text.
Signal words
- DANGER!
Disregarding these instructions leads to death or serious injury. - WARNING!
Disregarding these instructions leads to (serious) injury. - CAUTION!
Disregarding these instructions leads to property damage or even a total loss. - NOTICE!
Useful information for handling the product.
Text markups
- Precondition
- Work step/list
- Notice/instructions
- Result
Cross-references
The name of the section or table is in quotation marks “ ”. The page number follows in square brackets [ ].
Overview of safety symbols
| Danger of death because of electric shock | |
| Danger of death because of explosion | |
| Danger because of bacterial infection | |
| Warning – risk from hot surfaces | |
| Wear safety helmet. | |
| Wear safety shoes. | |
| Wear safety gloves. | |
| Wear respiratory mask. | |
| Wear safety glasses. | |
| Obey the instructions. | |
| Useful information |
