Many safety messages use the words\u00a0Caution<\/strong>, Warning<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Danger<\/strong>. Each sign has a color assigned to it to get your attention. There are universally accepted colors associated with each sign: caution signs are yellow<\/strong>, warning signs are orange<\/strong> and danger signs are red<\/strong>. Following are safety messages and their meanings, each of these signs will have a written message, and perhaps a picture, about an unsafe condition.<\/p>\n Manufacturers put important safety messages on tractors, machinery, and chemicals. You can also find them in the operator\u2019s manual. It is critical to read, understand and follow safety messages.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Information provided by the Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education, written by\u00a0 Nykole Kafka Vance, MS, CEP, CHES Many safety messages use the words\u00a0Caution, Warning\u00a0and\u00a0Danger. Each sign has a color assigned to it to get your attention. There are universally accepted colors associated with each sign: caution signs are yellow, warning signs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"News about AgrAbility","parent":0,"count":258,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":258,"category_description":"News about AgrAbility","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00a0<\/span> CAUTION <\/span>means you need to be careful. Follow the directions on the sign or you could get hurt.<\/h3>\n
\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 WARNING<\/span> is more serious and means you need to follow the directions on the sign or you could be badly hurt or killed.<\/h3>\n
\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 DANGER <\/span>is the most serious safety message. If you don\u2019t follow the directions, you will be seriously injured or killed.<\/h3>\n