STC sponsored a Webinar covering ANSI Z535.6 — A New Standard for Safety Information in Product-accompanying Literature. Rockwell Automation hosted this Webinar locally at their Landerhaven office in Mayfield Heights on January 31, 2007.
Attendees learned about this new standard for presenting safety messages in owners' manuals, product manuals, instructions, and other collateral materials.
The standard focuses on the design and placement of product safety messages (or warnings) in product-accompanying documents such as owners' manuals, instructions, users' guides, maintenance or service manuals, assembly instructions, and safety manuals.
The speakers ably described the new standard and reviewed the four types of safety messages defined in the standard: supplemental directives, grouped safety messages, section safety messages, embedded safety messages.
Participants found the presentation and standard content itself useful for providing ideas on how to work with this type of information.
Here is more from stc.org about the presenters:
Steven Hall serves as vice-chair for the ANSI Z535.6 subcommittee which directed and oversaw the development of the new standard. He is a senior consultant and director of hazard communication consultations at Applied Safety and Ergonomics.
Elaine Wisniewski is a managing consultant in the human factors and product safety group at Applied Safety and Ergonomics. She participates in research, development, and evaluation of safety communication such as warnings, instructions, symbols and graphics, owner's manuals, and other safety-related publications.
