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Main Category: information errors
Detailed category: misread, mismeasure, misinterpret
- Make labels easy-to-read
- Eliminate transcriptions
- Distinguish related items by color (color coding)
- Makes subtle distinctions obvious with organization and information
- Use graphics to simplify or clarify complexity and make interpretation easy
- Look-alike items must have distinctive labeling
- Provide information in units needed (avoid conversions)
- Make location of supplies accuated and obvious
- Check for compliance to specification limits
- Print a required dimension guide on the worksheet
- Processes are designed to be standard operations
- Automate the execution
- Print information once
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