Overboard with High Vis clothing

What ever personal protective gear the company or customer requires, wear it and grin and bear it. Usually a hardhat, steel toed boots, high-vis vest,and safety glasses. It's all about safety and insurance rates. I think the fireproof coveralls are the biggest bother I gotta deal with. At least I don't have to wear respirators or a moonsuit.

 

Reflective tape originally developed by 3M may also be used to enhance "Hi Viz" clothing in low light conditions. However some reflective tapes can reflect as much as 82% of the source light causing retinal damage. It is therefore recommended that aircraft pilots, professional truck/ bus drivers and operators of heavy plant (encased in mainly glass ROPS) refrain from wearing highly reflective clothing while conducting their duties.
My employer, USPS just gave us these atrocious ANSI 107 vest to where and bertioga opposed to wear them at all times. I put mine on and got in the truck and by the time I made my first stop my eyes were hurting because of the glare from the vest, glasses and reflecting off the glass in the truck. We will have a discussion about this later on at work.

 

I used to wonder why in the world are we covering the trailers in the then new strips of reflective tape.

One morning on US 15 I was rolling coal all out upgrade and here we are with a rig crossing my path in the fog. That tape gave me the time I needed to toss anchor. He would have been cut in half and i would be dead that day.

 

I'm leaving my current company over similar excessive, arbitrary, CYA safety policies too. Your only power is your ability to walk.

 

Wow, resurrecting a blast from the past.

 

True, but this particular change is completely unnecessary.

 

In the construction and excavating business I truck for, I’m always in high vis shirts and wear a high vis double layer sweater. My own clothing.

I chose to by choice as I know there are places that require those when on site.

The first while I had black high vis but it’s been banned from some pits as they want CSA-2 orange or neon yellow.

We have a newbie driver that’s kind of groaning about high vis stuff when I told him they are required.

He also wanted to wear his cowboy boots in the truck.

I told him, you can wear the boots in the truck but must have steel toe when out of the truck every time unless going home.

We’ll see how long this guy lasts lol

Also, I’m the only one that wears high vis all the time that I’m at work.

Everyone else has to pull out dusty crinkled vests that fell on the floor of a dirty dump truck, including dirty hard hats.

I have my own full brim hard hat that I keep clean in my sleeper truck.

It’s funny to watch the guys pull the hats, vests out, make disgusted faces and proceed to clean them after watching a safety video and signing paperwork that we watched the videos before we can enter the sites.

I just put my hat on, already have high vis shirt, boots, and just drive in.

 

Only time I wear it(vest) is while out of the truck in plants that require it.
Otherwise won’t be caught dead in it.

 

It could be that you have an incredibly bright, reflective vest.
If something obstructs your view while driving, it is a safety hazard. Call your safety department and tell them you have an object inside the cab creating a reflection that obstructs your view. Let them ask you what the object is. Invite someone from safety to drive with you to experience it first hand.
I'd really like to know what they say/do. Good luck.

"It just seems to me that it could actually pose a safety hazard. On bright days the reflection on the windshield could obstruct your view and even have a camouflaging effect on bright yellow objects. At night the reflection off oncoming car lights could cause a whole other set of issues."

 

And the hi vis green isn't all that effective!

Used to pass a school crossing guard, guy was real tall and the green coat was very noticeable.

Next year it's a short black lady with a huge 'fro', watched her almost get hit by the auto in front of me on the first day of school. the smaller coat and larger black background made her very hard to see.

As a hunter I use blaze orange as required. I have attempted [years ago with film] and again with a digital camera to zoom in and capture the faint spot of orange I could see, hundreds of yards away, with my bare eye...nothing ended up in film or digital medium BUT I could see it!

The green reflection is very annoying, I get a headache from the reflection in my eyeglasses, I wouldn't want to have it in my field of view...