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Conventions Used in Manuals
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 con-
ventions 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
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.
Alerts the user to a specic hazardous situation that means "Caution, risk of
electric shock".
Conventions and wording indicating prohibited and mandatory actions
Indicates concrete information about prohibited actions.
Indicates concrete information about mandatory actions.
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 procedures 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 document or an
extraneous User's Manual.
E.g.: For details about XX, see
"1.2 Part Names and Functions" (page 2).