Safety Precautions - Olympus DS-5500 Instructions Manual

Safety precautions

Before using your new recorder, read this manual
carefully to ensure that you know how to operate
it safely and correctly. Keep this manual in an
easily accessible location for future reference.
• The warning symbols indicate important safety
related information. To protect yourself and others
from personal injury or damage to property, it is
essential that you always read the warnings and
information provided.
f Danger
If the product is used without observing
the information given under this
symbol, serious injury or death may
result.
f Warning
If the product is used without observing
the information given under this
symbol, injury or death may result.
f Caution
If the product is used without observing
the information given under this
symbol, minor personal injury, damage
to the equipment, or loss of valuable
data may result.
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Convention used in this manual
• The word "card" is used to refer to the SD
card.
• The word "ODMS" is used to refer to the
Olympus Dictation Management System
in Windows environment.
• The word "DSS Player" is used to refer to
the DSS Player for Mac in Apple Macintosh
environment.
• This manual shows the English on
screen display in the illustrations and
explanations.
You can select the display language for this recorder.
For details, see "Language(Lang)" (☞ P.38).
Caution for usage environment
• To protect the high-precision technology
contained in this product, never leave the
recorder in the places listed below, no
matter if in use or storage:
• Places where temperatures and/or humidity
are high or go through extreme changes. Direct
sunlight, beaches, locked cars, or near other heat
sources (stove, radiator, etc.) or humidifiers.
• Near flammable items or explosives.
• In wet places, such as bathrooms or in the rain.
• In places prone to strong vibrations.
• Never drop the recorder or subject it to
severe shocks or vibrations.
• The recorder may malfunction if it is
used in a location where it is subject to
a magnetic/electromagnetic field, radio
waves, or high voltage, such as near a
TV set, microwave, video game, loud
speakers, large monitor unit, TV/radio
tower, or transmission towers. In such
cases, turn the recorder off and on again
before further operation.