Think Safety!

(NOTE: All warning symbols were taken from actual equipment.)
Warning pictogram from Wiggins forklift

DO NOT
stand underneath the forklift.
Warning pictogram from Safway scaffolding

DO NOT
leap off the scaffolds.
Warning pictogram from scissor-lift, manufacturer unknown

DO NOT
fling yourself off the scissor-lift and plummet to your death.
Warning pictogram from Genie snorkel-lift

DO NOT
crush yourself with large dangerous heavy machinery.
Another warning pictogram from Genie snorkel-lift

DO NOT
stick your hand into the gears.
Warning pictogram from one-man Genie-lift

DO NOT
do song-and-dance numbers when you're thirty feet up in the lift.
Warning pictogram from Genie snorkel-lift

DO NOT
put your hand into the acid.
Warning pictogram from one-man Genie-lift

DO NOT
throw a party and drink champagne and carouse merrily while in the lift.
Another one-man Genie-lift pictogram

Ow! My foot!
Warning pictogram from car battery compartment

Hey!
Didn't I tell you to keep your hand out of that acid?
Warning pictogram from one-man Genie lift

You'd be amazed at how many people insist on using the Genie-lift during the height of a hurricane.
Warning pictogram from Coca-Cola vending machine

STAY AWAY
from the Killer Vending Machine.
Warning pictogram inexplicably found on a candy machine

Whatever you do, for God's sake DON'T vote Republican!
Warning pictogram from car battery compartment

...Do we really have to tell you that explosions are bad for you?
Warning pictogram from Seattle Repertory Theatre dustpan

DO NOT hit people in the head with the dustpan.

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DO NOT read the eye-straining fine print.