Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Reasons To Wear Safety Vests

By Krystal Branch


Safety vests are known to be sleeveless jacket-like reflective clothing that motorist, outdoors and cyclist wear so as to avoid accidents especially at night. Most of these clothing are orange and yellow in a color with a mix of white shiny stripes that are recommended in order to enhance the ability of the vest to reflect light making it easier to spot people especially in the dark.

As documented in the traffic laws, safety is categorized in different classes when it comes to grading the different vest to be used by people working in dissimilar occupations. These categories are distinguished by color, sizes and reflect ability. People who work closer to public road are usually exposed to risks of accident hence they need brighter attires as compared to people in other occupations such as construction workers.

The objective of wearing this clothing is usually to enhance high visibility and so designer use reflective materials and shiny deposits that on the attire in order to achieve this. This is not all as traffic laws have their requirements regarding how these attires should look like in order to ensure they have attained the requires reflective ability; hence, protecting the person wearing them by improving their visibility.

Additionally, its also recommended that designers who are responsible for making these attires use polyester or other waterproof material in order to protect the wearer from rain and other causes of wetness. Also, cleaning becomes easy which is an advantage especially since one may require to wear them a lot depending on the occupation.

The fact that different occupations necessitates different requirement in regards to time one spends wearing them, making them fitting and comfortable is crucial. Moreover, some goes to the extent of personalizing these outwears by having their names, name of company or other message printed on them in order to make them unique not like other outwear that traffic laws demands people to wear.

As a means to enhance their outlook, designers makes the effort to understand the different tastes and preferences of different consumer; hence, identifying the styles suitable for different clients. The market for these products have become more competitive as consumers no longer go for just a jacket-like vest but a better looking outwear.

The more details put into making them, the more expensive they are; moreover, their prices is also dependent on the size and basically the material used to make them. Different brands usually have different prices and with the competition in the industry, every brand tries to reduce prices so as to enhance their competitiveness.

Safety vests are usually considered as equipment for personal protection and that of the people around as refusing to wear this attire also put the people around in risk of accidents. For instance, if an accident occurs as a result of a worker ignoring to put on this outwear, the people around them in the course of the accident might fall victim of this misfortune which may make them liable for the damage caused.




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