Larry Bishop of the Zenith Co. in San Diego had a problem. How was he supposed to communicate important safety information through signs and posters to his largely Vietnamese workforce who knew little, if any, English? Although there was a large source of safety products in the marketplace, including signs in other languages, Vietnamese was not one of them.
Necessity breeds invention, and Bishop came up with a novel approach. He created his own signs by using safety clip art and having a bilingual employee complete the wording of the posters in Vietnamese.