Perhaps, it's time to utilize "Alert" instead of "Warning" for Class A compliance information.
- Robert - Robert A. Macy, PE m...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619 North First St, San Jose, CA 95112 -----Original Message----- From: douglas_beckw...@mitel.com <douglas_beckw...@mitel.com> To: David Heald <davehe...@mediaone.net> Cc: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org>; ni...@tsd.serco.com <ni...@tsd.serco.com> List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org 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 > > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.