Perhaps, it's time to utilize "Alert" instead of "Warning" for Class A
compliance information.
- Robert -
Robert A. Macy, PE [email protected]
408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121
AJM International Electronics Consultants
619 North First St, San Jose, CA 95112
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
To: David Heald <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>;
[email protected] <[email protected]>
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: User Warning Signal Words]
>
>
>
>From: Douglas Beckwith@MITEL on 11/07/2001 04:27 PM
>Hi All,
>If I may submit my two Canadian pesos worth. There is a US miltary handbook
on
>technical writing that discusses the defintion of these words and how they
>should be used. Can't remember what it is off hand, but I will look it up
and
>post it. These are the definitions that we use in our documentation. Here
is a
>brief summary.
>
>CAUTION - Potential damage to the equipment, e.g. ESD or static
>WARNING - Potential minor injury or harm to the the user/maintainer. e.g
sharp
>edges, corners etc
>DANGER - Potential major injury or death of the user/maintainer, e.g.
exposed
>High voltage terminals.
>
>That being said, I have seen so many misuses and applications of these
terms
>that deviate from the definitions, for example in the UK you are required
to put
>an EMC Class A "warning" note in the documentation. In that case, I don't
think
>that Class A emissions from an unintentional radiator are harmful, but that
is
>another debate.
>
>Regards
>
>Doug Beckwith
>Mitel Networks
>
>
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