I am not an expert on warning sign placement (let me rephrase that: I am not an expert on anything), but if you reading the “Watch Step” sign on this photo, aren’t you already looking at the step? Wouldn’t it make more sense to place it at eye level? Maybe there is some hidden reason for a sign stating the obvious. I’d like to know.
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7 responses so far ↓
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AF
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:32 pm
ROFL
You’ve been having some hilarious posts lately.. I liked the mohawk too. =)
Your fan.
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Burrowowl
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:58 pm
The sign is placed there to avoid liability if somebody fails to notice the step and hurts himself. The injured person can sue, and the property owner can argue that there was a clearly-visible warning posted.
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m.v.
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:59 pm
you mean when a person falls and comes face-to-face with the sign, they cannot deny seeing it?
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Burrowowl
// Aug 25, 2008 at 9:11 pm
That’s about the long and the short of it, yes.
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travel
// Aug 26, 2008 at 10:27 am
Hmmm…not in Spanish, or Russian, or Somali, or the other 100+ languages spoken in this country.
GUILTY !!!
Case closed.
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Nuke
// Aug 27, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Is that at work by any chance? That building used to have tons of signs like that. “Watch step” on the stairs, or “step up” inside a computer room (after you would have had to step up).
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m.v.
// Aug 27, 2008 at 5:41 pm
It’s a secret undisclosed location and it will stay that way.
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