Should Zip Ties (Cable Ties) Have a Warning Label?

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor

Personally, I'm against the use of warning labels in general. It's a slightly negative view, but the population issue would be solved if there were no more warning labels on anything... that would also raise the average IQ.

I like some warning labels. My all time favorite is this one, familiar to anyone who has driven down Pike's Peak.

[artdutra04]

I think the better question to ask is would warning labels actually protect people from themselves?

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

I think the better question to ask is would warning labels actually protect people from themselves?

That's only if they actually read them, understand them, and follow them.

No matter what you do and how well you try to protect them,
some people are just out there to be candidates for the Darwin Awards!

[dtengineering]

Zip ties don't bind people,
PEOPLE bind people.

Jason

[hipsterjr]

Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor

Personally, I'm against the use of warning labels in general. It's a slightly negative view, but the population issue would be solved if there were no more warning labels on anything... that would also raise the average IQ.

So, a "Modest Proposal" of sorts. I like the way you think. I believe that if you're not stupid with them, you can build half your robot from zip ties. (by the end of the championship at Atlanta, zip ties were holding half our bot together after getting beaten around ).

[wendymom]

We zip tied one of our students to a chair during dinner break after IRI. It was kinda funny...theres a picture somewhere.

(no students were harmed during this act of horseplay)

[Rickertsen2]

NO

[JohnBoucher]

They do make a tool specifically for removing cable ties without cutting the bundled wires or your bundled friends

http://www.actfs.com/CatalogProducts...ProductsID=173

[StephLee]

Zip ties by themselves don't seem to tempt my team too dangerously by themselves...zip ties plus a zip tie gun, however...now THOSE are tempting. Hence the zip ties on my shoe laces, every pencil at our shop, several locks of hair, a few near-misses on fingers, and random places on the robot...

[AJ R]

It is not only zip ties, but other things used for cable management. We had one person on our team stick two fingers in a thing used to bundle wires. It is a braided nylon tube that works like a finger trap. While he was stuck in it, it was fun to pull him around, but he eventually got out.

[JaneYoung]

Bungee cords can be dangerous if not handled correctly.

Warning labels can only do so much, it comes down to individual safety practices and responsibility.

[KathieK]

Warning labels don't usually help. Labels come on bags of balloons, which are meant to be decorations, not toys, and are not usually printed on each balloon. Yet everywhere they are handing out helium balloons, parents are seen giving one to little Junior, who promptly puts it in his mouth. Which is why I gave up making balloon animals and started doing only face painting when I was a clown. When a balloon is popped it explodes (as seen here) and can easily be inhaled.
It's like putting the Warning: Hot labels on coffee cups. What happened to common sense?

[whytheheckme]

I'm glad I don't have this problem because I use Bar-Loks.

[Adama]

We tied all our wires down with wax Telcom string. No cuts and no hurt wrists

[JesseK]

The answer is no, we do not want to pay higher prices for warning labels on zip ties.