Does anyone know if there are industry standard colours for Hi Vis clothing? e.g transport, banksman, cr.ane drivers, construction, railways etc?

Also, does anyone operate a grading colours e.g. workers in yellow, Supervisors in orange.....then visitors to site??

Orange hi-vis for banksman, and yellow for all others on construction sites.

We operate Orange high vis for any member of our Critical Incident Team (Our policy is that emergency services can gain support from any employee in an orange jackets and they are also trained and have an information pack about services, locations and contacts).

All other managers, supervisors, forktruck drivers, first aiders, and fire marshalls have yellow high vis issued.

Any body with high vis has there name and whether they are a first aider or fire marshall embrodered on

We've not had to test use in a real incident as yet, but it looks to work well in practice.

The plan is to issue green vests to visitors but I've not implemented this as yet

We have orange for supervisor / emergency controller and yellow for everyone else.

Some of the girls here have pink and these are not en471 - I wonder how many people just buy for the colour and don't check the spec?

I'm getting a red one to go with my eyes.

You decide what your policy is to be and implement it through induction, control of contractors & visitors. You educate your staff and persons coming onto your site / premises.

You will note comment in relation to highways staff wearing yellow yet I know highways staff who wear orange totally... everyone has different experiences and different observations but at the end of day it's all about company policy, so you decide.

Most offerings here are on the money... for Hi Vis to be compliant they must 'pass the test' of sufficient reflective material by day and by night, and display EN471 on the label. Yellow (that some refer to as green, but it is yellow) and orange, to my knowledge, are the only two that meet the standard. There are a multitude of tutty-fruity colours out there that might look great at a Barbie convention but do not do the job! (... and if I see another first aider in an all green vest I think I’ll hit the roof, the only person likely to be ran over is the first aider!!!)
As some have allured to, you can mix colours about and still meet the standard, it's about how much non-acceptable colour material you inject into the garment. In response to the matter getting totally out of hand at my employ (various warehouse locations) we now have a standard company hi vis policy. All employees wear yellow. First aiders wear yellow with a green yolk (the central area from the breast over the shoulder to equivalent level on the rear (bottom of shoulder blades) and in-between the reflective strips... this retains the en471 status of the vest), Fire Marshalls wear Yellow with red yolk and supervisors/managers wear yellow with blue yolk. We employ a lot of agency staff and this colour regime facilitates quick recognition when a problem or emergency situation arises. All visitors & contractors on our sites are issued with / wear orange hi vis, so that they stand out from the crowd, their actions / where-abouts monitored and thus controlled easier. (BTW you can also utilise the yolk area for company logo, name, etc... front and / or rear without affecting the en471 status of the vest).

Finally, depending on the environment you are operating in will depend on what 'class' of hi vis vest you should consider... Have a look at HSG136 which I believe gives some advice on this for workplace transport environments (but may not... google high vis classifications and you'll get there...Can't give you it all on a plate ;-) ...)

Hope this helps.