Safety Notes and Warning Messages

Jens-Uwe Heuer-James is a licensed attorney (with an OLG license since 2001). Since then, he has been employed in a leading law office in Hannover. In addition to his activities as an attorney, he has published a number of books, such as "Product Liability and Product Safety" and "The New Product Safety Law." Heuer-James has been a partner in the "Commercial" field at Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft since December 2011. Since 1998, Heuer-James has advised the Gesellschaft für Technische Kommunikation (Association for Technical Communication) - tekom Deutschland e.V. and is responsible for the tekom Legal Service.
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Roland Schmeling, Dipl.-Phys., is the CEO of SCHMELING+CONSULTANTS in Heidelberg. The consulting business specializes in information quality management, from planning instructions in accordance with the law to optimized and measurable processes to the selection and introduction of suitable systems in technical communication. Schmeling studied physics and analytical philosophy with a focus on language and perception. Since 1999, he has advised businesses on technical communication using analyses, concepts, workshops and training sessions in various sectors, inter alia mechanical and systems engineering, medical devices, the automotive industry, energy technology, electrical appliances and industrial components. He volunteers at tekom, contributing his efforts to various working groups, events, and publications. As a member of tekom Advisory Committee for Standards and Guidelines, he collaborated on IEC 82079-1 at the national and international levels. Schmeling has taught quality assurance since 2004 at Furtwangen University. He proofreads documentation for TÜV SÜD and audits editing processes in accordance with DocCert. His work focuses on information concepts and standardization, quality assurance, legal conformity and CE, liability risk reduction, training sessions and the strategic growth of information development in businesses. Currently, new media and information reduction are in the foreground.
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Matthias Schulz is a Certified Translator for Engineering in the English language. Since 1992, Schulz has been deeply involved with the EC Machinery Directive and all areas of CE marking. He has published various guides and specialist publications since 1991 on formulating and designing safety notes and warning messages, operating instructions, performance of risk assessments, text comprehensibility and terminology management. Schulz is currently active as an advisor for safety engineering in mechanical and systems engineering, as well as for the preparation and optimization of safety-related information in instruction manuals.

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