RE: Product Safety Symbol Legalities

2004-04-15 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Joe I agree with the others who responded earlier to your question, but I would also add another: All these answers, and current/future wording of EU Directives, are tending towards the risk assessment approach to product safety, i.e. perform an identification and assessment excercise on the po

Re: Product Safety Symbol Legalities

2004-04-14 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Jo, While I agree with Bob and Rich that the use of markings will not provide you with an immunity from prosecution, some infer from such replies that providing warnings on the product or in the user instructions is a waste of time: this isn't so. Safety standards may require certain informat

RE: Product Safety Symbol Legalities

2004-04-14 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
You are not going to get a clear answer. You liability is a probability calculation, no a yes or no answer. You can provide an attendant to personally warn users as they do the wrong thing and still have liability. If your product is attractive enough to distract someone's glance as they walk thro

Re: Product Safety Symbol Legalities

2004-04-14 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Hi Joe: > As a manufacturer, are we covered from any liability as a result of the > user not being aware of what the symbol means? Do we assume that users > know to refer to the manual when they see that symbol? Are there any court > cases that have set precedents on this issue or r