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All DANGER, or what?

By 14. March 2022No Comments

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All DANGER, or what?

2022-03-14

The use of signal words has often been discussed at conferences, consultations or simply between colleagues. Some of the questions and opinions differ even more:

  • classification of hazards
  • assignment of signal words
  • embedded or not
  • based on risk assessment and risk evaluation
  • and, and, and

For all these questions, there are standard-compliant answers in ISO 12100, ISO 13849, ANSI Z535.5 and the standards referenced in them.

What, even these answers do not fit your practice? Besides, in the end anyway, it is unclear whether users can adequately distinguish the difference between DANGER, with almost certain death or serious injury, and WARNING, with possibly certain death or serious injury.

However, the signal words must still be defined …

”For all those who are desperate, ANSI Z535.5 provides simple support in the appendix "C4.2 Signal word selection procedure".

Marco Jänicke
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Source: ANSI Z535.5, appendix “C4.2 Signal word selection procedure”