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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F08 on Sports The sole source of supply of the apparatus known to the committee at this time
Equipment, Playing Surfaces, and Facilities and is the direct responsibility of is Compressed Gas Association, 4221 Walney Road, 5th Floor, Chantilly, Virginia
Subcommittee F08.24 on Paintball and Equipment. 20151-2923. If you are aware of alternative suppliers, please provide this informa-
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4.6 The warnings, instructions, and notices may be a com- be on the same horizontal line as the base of the letters of the
bination of upper and lower case letters and must be of a size signal word. The height of the safety alert symbol shall equal
not less than 8-point type. The letters in the signal word shall or exceed the signal word height. All words and symbols must
be at least 50 % larger than the letters in other words in the contrast with the background color.
cautionary statement. The signal word shall be in sans serif
letters in upper case only and preceded by a safety alert 5. Keywords
symbol. It is composed of an equilateral triangle surrounding 5.1 CO2 cylinder; paintball; paintball CO2 cylinder warn-
an exclamation point. The base of the safety alert symbol shall ings; paintball sports
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