ABSTRACT
The guidelines are useful for forming prototype warnings (early candidate warnings), but because products differ in various ways, including their characteristics and use, and in the hazards they potentially pose, the content derived from merely using guidelines may not be optimal for the warning. There has been very little literature describing the process of creating and testing the text messages for product warnings. Frantz, Rhoades, and Lehto (1999) described a general, four-step process (project planning, identifying and understanding product hazards, developing warning prototypes, and evaluating warning prototypes)
for developing warnings. Frantz et al. gave an excellent overview of the warning process, but the specifics involved in developing warning text were only covered broadly.
