“Why bother with writing a chapter on safety when no one is going to read it anyway?” A justifiable question indeed. In most cases, the reason quoted is escaping legal consequences. And that is exactly how safety notes would come across to readers: legally motivated dry patches, as if this is precisely what the author intended to achieve, namely, that the notes should go unread. An approach that has serious consequences, because the quality, the didactic design of the notes based on the latest inputs from science and technology, is crucial in effective safeguarding.
The manufacturer’s motivation for writing a chapter on safety is safeguarding: “Basic” rules that are independent of or placed hierarchically higher than the activities described in the instructions should be documented in a written and binding manner. If the user does not abide by these rules, then, it is hoped that the manufacturer will stand a better chance of defending himself against compensation claims in the event of any damage, if reference can be made to the chapter on safety.
The tricky part here is: Information which is known or can be known to the manufacturer to be incomprehensible, uninformative or inaccurate and which the user is therefore not going to read, can no longer be considered as conducive to safety without any restrictions. Thus, for instance, the interpretation of the law has stated that the notes on dangers should be designed in such a way that they actually ...
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