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IBM Systems safety notices and information

The IBM Systems Safety Notices contains the safety notices for the IBM® Systems products in English and other languages. It also contains the safety information labels found on the hardware in English and other languages. Anyone who plans, installs, operates, or services the system must be familiar with and understand the safety notices. Read the related safety notices before beginning work.

IBM Systems Safety Notices G229-9054

The publication is organized into three sections:
Safety notices

Lists the danger and caution notices without labels, organized alphabetically by language.

The following notices and statements are used in IBM documents. They are listed in order of decreasing severity of potential hazards.
Danger notice definition
A special note that calls attention to a situation that is potentially lethal or extremely hazardous to people.
Caution notice definition
A special note that calls attention to a situation that is potentially hazardous to people because of some existing condition, or to a potentially dangerous situation that might develop because of some unsafe practice.
Labels
Lists the danger and caution notices that are accompanied with a label, organized by label reference number.
Text-based labels
Lists the safety information labels that might be attached to the hardware to warn of potential hazards, organized by label reference number.
Note: This product was designed, tested, manufactured, and certified for safe operation. It complies with IEC 60950-1 and/or IEC 62368-1 and where required, to relevant National Differences/deviations (NDs) to these IEC base standards. This includes, but is not limited to: EN (European Norms including all Amendments under the Low Voltage Directive), UL/CSA (North America bi-national harmonized and marked per accredited NRTL agency listings), and other such derivative certifications according to corporate determinations and latest regional publication compliance standardized requirements.

Finding translated notices

Each safety notice contains an identification number. You can use this identification number to check the safety notice in each language. The list of notices that apply to the product are listed in the Danger notices and the Caution notices topics.

To find the translated text for a caution or danger notice:
  1. In the product documentation, look for the identification number at the end of each caution notice or each danger notice. In the following examples, the numbers (D002) and (C001) are the identification numbers.
    DANGER
    A danger notice indicates the presence of a hazard that has the potential of causing death or serious personal injury. (D002)
    CAUTION:
    A caution notice indicates the presence of a hazard that has the potential of causing moderate or minor personal injury. (C001)
  2. Open the IBM Systems Safety Notices (G229-9054) publication.
  3. Under the language, find the matching identification number. Review the topics concerning the safety notices to ensure that you are in compliance.

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