RE: Notes, tips, and warnings... oh my!

Subject: RE: Notes, tips, and warnings... oh my!
From: "Pete Sanborn" <psanborn2 -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:46:26 -0500

As Jonathan aptly observes:
"I feel the real reason we have instructions and warning notes is for the
lawyers . . ."

Exactly. Even though readers tend NOT to read these items, we cannot afford
to leave them out of the documentation and my response was not intended to
suggest that I advocated that. Far from it.

If we want the tips, notes and warnings to be of value, we need to find a
more meaningful way to deliver them that protects the manufacturer from a
lawsuit and still provides critical information necessary to safeguard the
humans working on the machinery.

Thanks to Jonathan for bringing this point to everyone's attention.

Regards,
Pete Sanborn

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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-81537 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Jonathan
Soukup
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:23 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Notes, tips, and warnings... oh my!


>>>As Pete says, readers don't read notes. But it has been observed that
readers don't read steps either.

To be honest, I feel the real reason we have instructions and warning notes
is for the lawyers, not necessarily the users. Ok, so I'm pessimistic, but
go ask your boss what's more important: Will the user understand the
instructions? OR Will the user file a class action law suit against us
because of these instructions?

-Jonathan Soukup


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