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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 conven-
tions include general warnings and specific warnings. Specific warning symbols are provided with con
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crete pictograms inside of them.
Safety reminder conventions and wording warning against potential haz-
ards
DANGER
Indicates an immediately hazardous situation which, if not avoided, 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.
Alerts the user to a specific 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 specific 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 further details on xxx, refer to
"1.2 System Configuration and Name of Each Part" (page 1)
