Talk:Wet floor sign
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editDear All,
This is a classic treatise on Occupational Health and Safety, what else could it be, surely not a cynical exercise in pompous verbosity or verbose pomposity...........??? It must have its place in the sun.........and it is in the area of Security Risk Management where it has its place. There is a whole very well paying industry amongst Private Security Industry Consultants (I am one myself hehe) which makes suggestions as to how to avoid `Wet Floors' and what happens when you don't avoid them or avoid them happening.............so surely there is some way to make this applicable and relevant to that which is a very litigeous topic.
Geoffrey B.W.Little Website: www.polepfr.org Email: polepfor@bigpond.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polepfor (talk • contribs) 08:13, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't think this warrants its own article. xenocidic (talk) 04:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I think that wet-floor signs are vital products in modern society and therefore warrant their own article. Carpenters13 (talk) 04:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Do you disagree? I think it is commonly understood that wet-floor signs provide not only information, but also increase bilingualism. Think about how many times you have seen "CAUTION! AVISO"! Now you know that Aviso means Caution. That is quite significant. Carpenters13 (talk) 04:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
This article is a work of humor suitable for Uncyclopedia, but if someone chose to write it there are references enough to create a brief article on these signs. As I noted at the AFD, "Most books on managing restaurants [1] and other property talk as well as on patient care [2] include at least the instruction to place one whenever there is a spill or a floor is mopped. Many legal textbooks discuss the failure to place one of these as literally "textbook" negligence leading to a slip and fall lawsuit "Business Law and the Legal Environment" By Ronald Aberdeen Anderson (1999) p 163 A Google News search shows scads of cases, starting in the 1980's, about accidents resulting from the omission of these signs [3] A book on warning signs contains over 130 words about the "wet floor sign": its effectiveness draws upon implicit knowledge in the average person that such a floor will present a slipping hazard, so that additional information may be omitted “Handbook of Warnings” By Michael S. Wogalter, p420, (2006). " Edison (talk) 01:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
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Cut too deep
editSomeone cut the article too deeply. There was some stuff that didn't need cut. xenocidic (talk) 17:31, 12 May 2008 (UTC)