The Mom Kind Warning labels have importance because they keep customers safe while protecting businesses from liability. Failure to warn customers about the danger can lead to multi-million-dollar lawsuits.
Why Warning Labels Are Important
Employees need warning labels as well to keep safe while performing their duties. Having an identifiable and legible warning label protects people from getting hurt. You also want to check that your warning label complies with ISO and OSHA standards. In some cases, you may have to put a warning label in English, and the languages are spoken by the consumers that your product is marketed to.
What Happens When the Warning Label Isn’t Effective
Sometimes the warning label doesn’t provide enough protection. Customers still get injured because they ignored it. In cases like that, they will change the product or the packaging to protect customers. Still, the warning label is useful here because it can help you pinpoint the problem’s source.
To give an example, soup companies had problems with children burning themselves on the soup containers. In some cases, the burns were severe, but the warning labels weren’t helping. This prompted soup companies to redesign their packaging to make soup less prone to tipping over.
Inadequate Warning: The Basis for Liability
Improper warning on a product could serve as the basis for a lawsuit. Addressing company packaging issues and adding a suitable warning label will put a heat shield up if someone gets injured using your product. If they had more than an adequate warning, they wouldn’t have grounds to file a lawsuit.
Purchased products malfunctioning becomes a situation where people had had the legal ground to file a lawsuit, mostly when the company failed to give adequate warning.
Companies Have a Responsibility to Warn Customers
The courts see it as the company’s legal responsibility to warn customers about their products. If a product isn’t supposed to be used a certain way, it should have a warning label. Don’t let your company get financially tanked because of a lawsuit that you could have prevented.
It’s important to note that you have to place the warning label in an area where the customer can easily see it. If a warning label is improperly placed, it could open your company up to lawsuits.
The Standards of Your Industry
Warning labels have different standards, depending on the industry. Some industries will have specific standards that you have to follow. For example, the candle manufacturing industry requires that you have a warning label and educate customers further on properly burning a candle.
It may sound like overkill, but they require specific things for certain industries. Check the rules of your industry to make sure that you don’t have to make special instructions.
Each Label Needs Its Own Set of Colors and Symbols
The danger each product potentially poses will vary, so you want each label to have a custom label with links on it. In some cases, you have to plan for extreme exposure to the sun or laminate the warning label. This depends on several factors. Labels may not work every time, but you protect yourself from liability.
Warning labels can protect your customers from harm, and they could save a life in some cases. That is what makes them so important. Warning labels can also protect you from dangers that you may not have thought of. Some people ignore warning labels, but from a legal standpoint, you can only do so much. If someone gets hurt using your product after ignoring the warning label, it’s not your fault.
The Mom Kind
Alicia Trautwein is an Autism advocate, writer, motivational speaker, and dedicated mom of four. Alicia’s desire to advocate for Autism comes from her own autism diagnosis and that of her three children, niece, and brother. Her life’s mission is to educate on autism acceptance and change the world for future generations of autistic individuals.
