Friday, February 21, 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.

According to the traffics laws, there are various classes of safety which then distinguishes the various types of vests in terms of their color, size and reflective ability. The more one is exposed to public such as outdoor workers in roads one is expected to wear the brightest vest as there are more risk of accidents as compared to those working in construction sites.

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.

Nowadays, designers tend to consider most of consumers taste and preferences so as to make outwears that suitable to the distinctive styles of most customers. This is a technique that designers use to enhance their competitiveness since the competition in the markets keep growing bigger with every passing day, and also since people no longer settle for plain jacket-like attires.

In this case, the more effort paid in working on these attires in terms of the detailing is usually the determinant of their prices in addition to their material and sizes. The prices for different brand differ due to the ever-increasing competition in the industry as prices keep changing in order to survive in the market by enhancing 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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