Reminder Messages

Reminder messages (pop-ups) can be used to aid workers’ memory with digital devices.

There is little current guidance (either common practice or evidence-based) for any element of digital procedures. The following are based on general design principles for effective User Centered Design (Grudin and Pruitt, 1993).

Pop-ups can be beneficial when:

• User plans to take difficult-to-reverse actions with serious consequences
• A small amount of information must be provided before user proceeds to next step
• Emphasizing to user the content in an overlay

Information in pop-ups can include:

• Relevant information from hazard statements
• Operating limits and the time limit for a particular step
• Measurements to be taken
• PPE and other equipment that needs to be gathered at that point