What is the relationship between product liability and state-of-the-art safety labels?
Meeting the current ANSI Z535.4 safety label requirements is an important part of designing the products your company sells in the United States. Even when appropriate design features and safety devices are incorporated into machinery, some residual risks may remain. Safety labels alert operators or other exposed people to these residual risks, instruct them on how to avoid the hazard, inform of the consequence of interaction with the hazard, and conveys the severity of the hazard. Also, since many accidents are the result of impulsive actions, a safety label can remind people of open and obvious hazards that might otherwise have caused them injury. With the ever-increasing risk of litigation, the need for state-of-the-art safety labels has become virtually mandatory for equipment manufacturers. Using state-of-the-art safety labels becomes important when it is understood that lawsuits containing the allegation of a “Failure to Warn” or “Inadequate Warnings” are the predominate form of
