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High-visibility safety apparel

The high-visibility safety clothing must comply with the European Standard for visibility clothing EN471: 2003, Class I, Class II and Class III.

Garments are classified according to the visibility they provide. Each class specifies the minimum quantity of base material and retro-reflective material to use.

Countries requiring the presence of high-visibility warning vests in vehicles are:

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Italy and Spain (Spain requires every occupant of the vehicle has potential access to its vest, which must be kept on board the vehicle).

Countries recommending the wearing of warning jackets are: Norway and Portugal.

Standards of safety clothing Class I

Wearing these clothes is enough on private road. High-visibility trousers fall into this category if they are mismatched with a jacket or a safety vest. The minimum surface base material is 0.14 m², the minimum area of retro reflective material is 0.10 m².

Standards of safety clothing class II

Wearing these clothes is suitable for roads open to public traffic. The minimum surface base material is 0.5m²; the minimum area of retro reflective material is 0.2 m².

Standards of safety clothing class III

Wearing these clothes is required on motorways, dual-channel or airport areas. The minimum area of base material is 0.8 m², the minimum area of retro reflective material is 0.2 m².

This information is for guidance only. Always make sure your visibility clothing is appropriate in any given situation.

Veolia technicians wear safety vest track down leaks

Drinking water is a precious commodity that must limit the loss. At Veolia, Veolia technicians wear a reflective vest tracks down leaks in the network of 59 municipalities in the Vendees.

For us, it just turns on the tap. And the water flows. Drink a glass of water; take a shower, washing dishes… And when one receives a note in our mailbox to warn us is that the water will be cut off during the afternoon, it is the disaster. “Water leaks is classic, says Pascal Bernard, responsible for the distribution of drinking water in Veolia. The thing is to identify as quickly as possible to cause the least possible inconvenience to the users. On average, they will be without half a day, maximum. “Because it’s right, the submerged part of the iceberg.

Leaks often related to road problems

Leakage may result from heavy work; thaw a pipe in winter or, an obsolete pipeline. “When you see water flowing along the sidewalk, for example, the city hall is calling us directly to resolve the issue”, describes Melinda Gilbert, head of Veolia service network. Consequences: broken pipes, geysers that form in concrete, rough roads … In short, it is the snowball effect that attempt to limit the field technicians.

At Lyonnais, wearing a helmet, wearing gloves and a reflective jacket, Pascal shows how to capture a water leak in the pipes. This is an acoustic research, managed by a big box and headphones, everything is done. “The longer the flight, the lower it will be difficult to capture, he says, tapping his case. One must also take into account external noise. “Example: traffic. A car passes and all analysis is flawed. That’s why sometimes you have to these analyzes at night when traffic is less.

Five to ten accidents per year

“Water losses account for about 5% of consumption,” explains Melinda Gilbert. If losses remain stable in proportion, they increased in volume recently Lyonnais worrying the environmentalists. Sometimes leaks are related to other problems than those on the network. At La Roche-sure-Yon, the latest based on a sprinkler system, left open overnight inadvertently.

To detect the technicians follow the daily consumption, thus raising their consumption peaks unexplained cases. To avoid such complications, there are sectors listed with about 150 meters. Each technician in safety vest has a map where they are listed. “This is not to lose time in their search for knowledge in what sector of leak, it already reduces the scope, says the manager. It takes a lot of permissions so as not to lose time.” Pretty well-established systems since, according to Melinda Gilbert, there are between five and ten major accidents per year.

The rules to follow to keep road safety

They land in our streets!

“Overboard”, electric scooter, mini-bike… These motorized wheeled vehicles, usually electrical democratize and it’s a safe bet that they will multiply on public roads. But what are the rules governing their use? How to keep the road safety?

These vehicles require no registration.

For an electric bike reaches a maximum speed of 25km / h, it does not take either. By cons when it exceeds the power of 250w and we exceed 25km / h, and is akin to a moped, the registration is mandatory as the safety vest.

Absolute respect for pedestrians

Often semi-pedestrian area, road landscape merges with sidewalks and pedestrians remain in these circumstances there priority! You are punished if you make the Fungi over 6km / h on sidewalks and pedestrian areas! In addition to walking pace, electric scooter, “PT” and electric skateboard should use bike paths when they exist and if they do not exist, it will be on the road with cars.

The equipment

It is not mandatory but recommended. Knee pads, elbow pads, helmets, protective wrist are needed. A reflective vest is not a luxury.

Good trip and be safe!

Attention drivers! Equip yourself with reflective vest

General Inspectorate of Romanian Police informs that the A2 motorway Bucharest – Constanta, between 144 and 200 kilometers, traffic is conducted in conditions of fog; visibility is less than 50 meters (sometimes). Because of fog which reduced visibility than all the A2 about a week ago there was a tragedy, four people lost their lives without any reflective clothing, another 50 were injured after a collision with 29 cars.

According to police, to avoid any accident, as well as reducing speed, increasing the distance walking and proper use of lights, in terms of highways and other specific rules must be observed:

– turn off the lanes and the emergency lane!

– in case of power failure or technical failure, turn on hazard warning lights, equip yourself with reflective vest, remove occupants off the roadway and place the triangles, one after the other, at greater distances, inform INFOTRAFIC General Inspectorate of Police Romanian.

Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that there were hospitalized 14 wounded in the accident on the A2.

In car accident on Saturday in the Leslie they were involved 29 cars, two buses and a truck carrying people. Four people died and nearly 50 other were injured. Police advise that drivers all need to wear the safety vest to enhance the visibility for safety.

Reflective vest is necessary in dense fog conditions

Traffic on Highway A1 Bucharest – Pitesti takes place on Sunday morning, a dense fog condition, visibility was at times less than 50 meters, in this case, wear a reflective safety vest is necessary for light, and the center announced General Inspectorate of Romanian Police.

According to police, besides the usual rules on the movement during fog, it must be considered and some specific recommendations highways:

Increase in walking distance between cars!

Do not stop on the lanes and the emergency lane! In case of power failure or technical failure, turn on hazard warning lights, equipped with your reflective vest, remove the occupants out of the roadway and place reflective triangles, one after the other, at greater distances!

Also, drivers can request support Motorway Police in reflective jacket, the National Unique System for Emergency Calls 112.

Reflective vest for the walk group

They arrive in dribs and drabs, but in less than ten minutes the square of the Pinetop station fills. They are 21 and wear a safety vest, as is now happening uninterruptedly since 3 March, every Monday and Thursday, is meeting in front of the station the people of the walkers, a few hundred people on average for a couple of hours are devoted to a walk health. Young and old, but also children on the stroller and dogs on a leash, all united by the desire to spend time together, do a little ‘healthy physical activity.

To design the “walking group” pieties, the primary cardiac surgery Atria, Antonio Macanese Santorin, fascinated by the experience made by a colleague of Terumi, he has decided to repeat the initiative even in Pinetop.

“When we started we were in 140,” said the doctor, “but then slowly, thanks to a spontaneous word of mouth, and the group grew, reaching, one spring evening, in 430 appearances. We walk every time from 6 to 9 km and it is nice to see how, through this merry party, the whole country comes alive, especially, once the tourists leave, on winter evenings. ”

The event, in fact, is known by all and also had the support of the city administration. To participate all you need is good shoes, a flashlight and a reflective vest.

“In a country where there are great opportunities to socialize,” added Macanese, “the walking group allows you to get together, learn corners of the territory that often even the residents know and have direct contact with nature. One of the most fascinating experiences, in fact, was able to walk a few weeks ago on a carpet of fireflies. Moreover, thanks to the efforts of volunteers, there is the certainty of just along the way not to be left that, however, can be done by everyone. Among our walkers we also had a sprightly 92 year-old man, as a boy of just two months in a wheelchair with her mother. ”

And, despite the decline in attendance recorded in the month of August because of the holidays, we hope to return in the next few appointments to the usual numbers.

“Walking is good and anyone can do it, wear reflective clothing will be better for safety” he concluded Macanese, “but to do so together we have more fun.”

Cyclists required a reflective jacket but no helmet

Effective from today there is the new rules of the road. Take the obligation to wear a reflective vest in the evening hours and in tunnels. Deleted, however, the compulsory use of helmets for children under 14

Pedaling in the evening? It can, but only with a reflective vest. And ‘one of the major changes in force from today, the new rules of the road that forces cyclists to wear a mandatory vest or suspenders reflective high visibility in the evening – by half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise – and always in the gallery. The new provision extends the obligation, already envisaged in 2004 for car drivers, to use the high visibility warning clothing. For bicycles the vest will be mandatory on the open road, for those who break the new regulations are provided for fines of 23 Euros.

The vests and suspenders, according to European standard UNI EN 471, must be of a durable color to rubbing, perspiration, washing and ironing and have to endure the outbreak of knitted materials, water vapor, traction and tearing of coated and laminated fabrics. As for the marking and information to be provided to the manufacturer, the standard refers to the requirements defined in the UNI EN 340 and states that on the garment is applied to a pictogram in which they reported the class of the garment and the class the retro reflective material performance. These other innovations of the Highway Code in force today:

The bicycle helmet, no longer mandatory for children under 14

Mandatory for younger children under the age of fourteen, in the final version of the law 120/2010 has been completely deleted.

In motion only with helmet

Now riders can no longer wear the old helmets ‘to bowl’, out of business since 1 September 2004 and no longer verifiable by 2003. Under only the whole or jet helmets (with adequate side protection) approved according to UN-ECE regulations. The reform of the Code also provides for the testing of electronic helmet (connected to the motorcycle via Bluetooth).

Revision, bikes as cars

All motorcycles are subject to review every four years after enrollment (the first) and every two (successive). Also the safety vest is required.

Reflective jacket for cyclists when it is compulsory

It’s Obligatory to wear the jacket or the reflex reflective braces when you ride out of town, half an hour after sunset at half an hour before dawn. And it’s Obligatory also in the gallery. These are the new rules of the Road Code.

Obligation of jacket and braces

For all cyclists to see in the dark is not only advisable, but also mandatory.

The Road Code forbids long journeys on bicycles without special visual signaling devices: white or yellow front light; Red backlight and red reflector; Yellow reflex reflectors on the pedals and on the wheels or on the sides. The recent changes to the Road Code also prescribe the obligation to wear a reflective vest or braces (such as those that are mandatory to hold in the car to use them in the event of an emergency stop) for cyclists in the following cases:

– Out of town half an hour before sunset at half an hour before sunrise;

– In the gallery.

Increase your bicycle safety

Improving your bicycle visibility increases your safety: therefore, it is always advisable to wear clothing with reflective bands or straps; or add intermittent lights to the bike, though not mandatory.

A “kits” visibility you buy with about 10 Euros: 3.50 euro x bracelet / leg, 5 euro for the safety vest, 6 Euros for flashing back light.

A little money and really well spent.

Motorcyclist must circular reflective vest

The government decided to extend the whole country as requiring motorcyclists and their passengers wear reflective vests, which must also be printed with the vehicle control, which also must be placed in the case.

Since its implementation will be mandatory to use these elements, otherwise the police will be enabled to apply financial penalties and even retain rolled, noted from the National Road Safety Agency, the organization that formalized the implementation of the measure.

The purpose of the provision is to reduce acts of insecurity running called “motor chorus” criminals who use motor vehicles to reach the scene of assault and swiftly escape. As these episodes are usually carried out by two people, mandating reflective yellow vests and helmets with registered patent also applies to passenger.

This resolution deadness in the province of Buenos Aires and will be extended to the rest of the country. In this regard, as in Buenos Aires area, those working at service stations may not be fuel for vehicles whose owners do not have vest and helmet and domain printed on each of these elements. Today in San Rafael governs an ordinance that allows stations to refrain sandpipers refuel motorcyclists circulating without the helmet.

In our city the possibility that the measure is concrete safety vest and helmet with generated domain rejection of those who use the bike as transportation. In that sense, the closing of this edition began a rally at kilometer zero where local motor queries would say “No” to the provision of imminent force in San Rafael.

Those who refuse this provision argue that it is “discriminatory” and can be easily compromised.

Reflective element is first discovered by a manager

Rudy Sabah, a micro-enterprise manager in Monteria, has created self-

Rudy Sabah, a micro-enterprise manager in Monteria, has created self-reflecting self-adhesive stickers! He explains the concept.

Rudy Sabah, after obtaining a BTS of visual communication at the Ecolab Brassard in Tours, began his career as a graphic designer in Paris. He remained there four years before moving to Vitter in Ill-et-Villain where he worked as an industrial designer for 10 years.

I was sensitized to the problem of visibility especially that of children, as soon as night falls. How to make them accept to wear a safety device? The idea came to create an accessory customization, playful, design, self-reflective, washable and repositionable multiple times on any smooth surface (clothing, shoes, schoolbags, smart phones, etc.) and even on the skin since The products used are hypoallergenic.

Rudy has therefore devised self-reflecting stickers in self-reflecting fabric enriched with glass beads, coated on the back with a special gel that allows them to be removed and put back at will.

Customers can choose their model from existing collections or have their own decor and their colors, including four-color process. This accessory is useful for pedestrians of course but also for two-wheelers and possibly for animals.

Rudy has set up his micro-business in Monteria where he now resides since July 2015 and has started to identify potential customers. “I contacted first the Road Prevention, the county council, the territorial collectivities, safety vest and so on. Who have shown their interest in this process, which can help make schools more secure.

Initially, I targeted companies and public players. I would also like to contact shops because other uses are possible: for example these stickers can be used as fashion accessories. They are also intended to be collected, exchanged, etc.! He explains the concept.