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ISO 7010 is an International Organization for Standardization technical standard for graphical hazard symbols on hazard and safety signs, including those indicating emergency exits. It uses colours and principles set out in ISO 3864 for these symbols, and is intended to provide "safety information that relies as little as possible on the use of ...
DANGER [signs] should not be used for property damage hazards unless personal injury risk appropriate to these levels is also involved." [1] OSHA 1910.145 Definition: "Shall be used in major hazard situations where an immediate hazard presents a threat of death or serious injury to employees. Danger tags shall be used only in these situations." [2]
On roadside warning signs, an exclamation mark is often used to draw attention to a generic warning of danger, hazards, and the unexpected. In Europe and elsewhere in the world (except North America and Australia), this type of sign is used if there are no more-specific signs to denote a particular hazard.
Free diving to extreme depth. It can be avoided by limiting free diving depth to capacity of lungs to compensate, [35] and by training exercises to increase compliance of chest cavity. [citation needed] Rupture or supply pressure failure of a surface supply hose with simultaneous failure of the non-return valve. [35]
a signal word – either Danger or Warning – where necessary; hazard statements, indicating the nature and degree of the risks posed by the product; precautionary statements, indicating how the product should be handled to minimize risks to the user (as well as to other people and the general environment)
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Many diving fatalities are the result of a cascade of incidents overwhelming the diver, who should be able to manage any single reasonably foreseeable incident. [3] Although there are many dangers involved in diving, divers can decrease the risks through effective procedures and appropriate equipment.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.