Mitutoyo ABSOLUTE ABS AT1123 - Conventions Used in This Manual; Safety Symbol Conventions; Prohibited and Mandatory Action Conventions; Referential Information Conventions

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CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS MANUAL
Conventions used in Mitutoyo's User's Manual are roughly divided into three types (safety reminders,
prohibited and mandatory actions, and referential information and locations). Moreover, these safety
symbols include general warnings and specic warnings. Specic warning symbols are provided with
concrete pictograms inside of them.
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Safety reminder conventions and wording warning against potential hazards
General
DANGER
Indicates an immediately hazardous situation which, if not avoid-
ed, will result in serious injury or death.
WARNING
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided,
could result in serious injury or death.
CAUTION
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided,
may result in minor injury.
NOTICE
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided,
may result in property damage.
Specic
Alerts the user to a specic hazardous situation that means "Cau-
tion, risk of electric shock".
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Conventions and wording indicating prohibited and mandatory actions
General
Indicates concrete information about prohibited actions.
Indicates concrete information about mandatory actions.
Specic
Indicates that grounding needs to be implemented.
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Conventions and wording indicating referential information or referential
locations
Tips
Indicates referential information such as that for when the operating methods and procedures which
are printed in these sentences are to be applied to specic conditions.
Indicates referential locations if there is information that should be referred to in this document or an
extraneous manual.
E.g.: For further details on, refer to
"1.2 Appellation and functions of each part" on page 2.