RE: Is there a study on reading warnings, notes?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

"Do not stand in a puddle while doing this" sounds like a warning
against electrocution, and Daktronics sells high-voltage products. Even
if there were no lawyers in the world, and all of my readers were
geniuses, I'd want to highlight that warning in the middle of the actual
instructions.

On another note: I might have misunderstood, but your subsequent e-mail
suggested that you can't maintain formatting while using chunks of text
across multiple departments. Why is that?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shannon Wade
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:03 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Is there a study on reading warnings, notes?
> 
> We are actively moving away from specific safety notices in 
> our manuals. We are headed the direction of "Here's the list 
> of over-arching concerns. We've provided you with them at the 
> beginning of the manual. Whether or not you choose to read 
> them is your decision. Now that we've provided you with them, 
> let's move on to the actual instructions, shall we?". In the 
> past we have included "Notes" with pertinent information and 
> the word "Note" in bold. We are doing away with that 
> convention and including that pertinent text (Do not stand in 
> a puddle while doing this) within the appropriate paragraph. 
> Does anyone see large concerns with this?
> 

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