Fundamentals

As the person responsible for your product’s safety labels, you might run into this problem: you want to convey your message in “symbol-only” form because your intended audience is global and yet your safety message is fairly complex.

The Commission of the European Union (EU) has published an updated list of standards...

Love the technology, but tired of cubicle life? Maybe you should consider becoming a sales engineer.

A new symbol is being standardized for arc flash – and it’s an important step forward for safety.

Find out what you need to know to reassess your company’s product safety labels based on the latest revisions of ANSI Z535.4 and ISO 3864-2.

Why? Why is it that one of the biggest aggravations in product safety is that of markings? For some reason, it seems that we can never get the markings right the first time. Furthermore, it seems that markings that have been acceptable for years will suddenly go bad.

The question of whether or not to use additional languages on your safety labels can be a complex one to answer.

In an effort to make information on the use of certain higher-risk home-use medical...

This month in our series exploring the latest industry insight on effective product safety label design and symbol usage, we’ll focus on the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) approval of symbol-only safety labels.

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