What is a signal word and what is a hazard identifying word?

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What is a signal word and what is a hazard identifying word?

The key idea is how labels communicate danger quickly using two elements that work together: a signal word and a hazard identifying word near the hazard symbol. The signal word tells you how severe the hazard is, appearing as caution, warning, or danger. The hazard identifying word identifies what kind of hazard you’re dealing with (for example, poison, corrosive, flammable, explosive) and is shown alongside the appropriate symbol that represents that hazard. This pairing helps you assess risk at a glance: the signal word flags severity, while the hazard identifying word with the symbol tells you what specific hazard you’d be handling. Other options mix up these roles or introduce irrelevant ideas like dosage or weather, or wrongly suggest the two terms are the same.

The key idea is how labels communicate danger quickly using two elements that work together: a signal word and a hazard identifying word near the hazard symbol. The signal word tells you how severe the hazard is, appearing as caution, warning, or danger. The hazard identifying word identifies what kind of hazard you’re dealing with (for example, poison, corrosive, flammable, explosive) and is shown alongside the appropriate symbol that represents that hazard.

This pairing helps you assess risk at a glance: the signal word flags severity, while the hazard identifying word with the symbol tells you what specific hazard you’d be handling. Other options mix up these roles or introduce irrelevant ideas like dosage or weather, or wrongly suggest the two terms are the same.

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