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Posted By Dominic Smyth
Can anyone explain the different colours please and why one may be selected above the other?
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Posted By David Matthew
When rail side only orange high viz can be used- i believe this is a legal requirement. When working on the public highway they must be as dictated by the New Roads & Street Works Act and can be any colour as long as they comply to the relevant specification. On construction sites there is no legal standard which is why the front cover of the ACoP shows a variety of vests.
Orange vest also have the advantage of not attracting those annoying small flies in the summer unlike their green/yellow counterparts.
Regards
David
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Posted By Safety officer
Also it is common on building sites that only the bankmen wear orange everyone else wears yellow, but not all seem to have adopted this.
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Posted By Ian_P
The British Standard for Hi-vis (BS EN 471:2003) lists specifications for three different colours of background material - Yellow, Orange-Red, and Red.* The standard notes in detail the variance luminence properties these colours should have - even after a wash! (try getting our staff to wash their hi-viz grrr..!!)
As far as choosing a colour, the standard says "users should consider the prevailing ambient background in which protection is
required and select the colour that provides the preferred contrast."
So, it's up to you which colour you choose, as long as its EN471, and as long as your industry hasn't a specific standard. Railways do - GO/RT 3279 - which specifies orange.
* Interestingly no other colours are noted, so if you're buying pink, green, white, blue or any other colour they probably won't conform to EN471.
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Posted By Ian_P
.....although I'm the first to admit to buying Pink vests in order to bribe our receptionist to wear one.
*slaps wrist*
Ian
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Posted By GeoffB4
Good point David, orange doesn't seem to attract insects anything like yellow.
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Posted By Barrie (Badger) Etter
Dominic
Other posters comments are valid but from my perspective go for orange. A past colleague did a test of orange vs yellow by placing one of each at the end of a very long garden. The orange won.
Now if we could only restrict these hi-vises to the work place instead of a chunk of the human race walking the streets in them as part of their daily work wear but are not at work. Rant over...
Badger
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