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CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS USER'S 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 specic warnings. Specic
warning symbols are provided with concrete pictograms inside of them.
Safety reminder conventions and wording warning against potential hazards
General
Indicates an immediately hazardous situation which,
if not avoided, will result in serious injury or death.
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if
not avoided, could result in serious injury or death.
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if
not avoided, may result in minor injury.
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if
not avoided, may result in property damage.
Specic
Alerts the user to a specic hazardous situation that
means "Caution, risk of ignition".
Conventions and wording indicating prohibited and mandatory actions
General
Indicates concrete information about prohibited
actions.
Indicates concrete information about mandatory
actions.
Specic
Indicates that grounding needs to be implemented.
Conventions and wording indicating referential information or referential
locations
Tips
Indicates referential information such as that for when the operating methods and pro-
cedures which are printed in these sentences are to be applied to specic conditions.
Indicates referential locations if there is information that should be referred to in this
guide or an extraneous manual.
E.g.:For functions of each part, refer to
"1.3 Names and Main Functions of Each
Part" on page 4.