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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