I tried to deliver to RM @ Normanton today, gate man offers me a tatty & smelly long sleeve Hi Viz and says “put that on” I asked when it was last washed, anyhow I unzipped the curtains and goes to find a forkie, gateman follows me and asks why I haven’t got his stinky thing on, I said my companies risk assessments don’t require it I asked again when it was last washed, so I gets refused the tip. I asked for a managers signature and when he comes he starts going off on one saying I need a class 3 vest, I pointed out that for the EN rating to be class 3 it needs to have 2 reflective bands round the sleeves which the offering did not, also it needs to be fastened of which NONE of the RM staff had theirs fastened. He duly signs my notes as refused and adds that I refused to comply with H & S regulations. I honestly thought I’d be for the high jump when I rang it in, I wasn’t.
I must apologise if you’re in W.Yorks and miss out on some junk mail through your door.
why didnt you have your own hi viz?as a professional driver i would expect you have a hi viz and safety boots as standard
strongbowpeter:
why didnt you have your own hi viz?as a professional driver i would expect you have a hi viz and safety boots as standard
I had my short sleeved vest, boots, bump cap, I’d have put on my hard hat & safety glasses If need be, but I wasn’t going to wear a sweat stinking vest just because (rumour has it) some muppet trapped his arm between a dock and a reversing truck. Surely the corrective action should be to stop peeps putting their limbs in harms way, not to make those limbs more visible.
I think out of spite I’m going to order one of these:
I wear these at work delivering to construction sites varying in size from a small extension to a huge civil engineering projects, never once has someone told me that I need to put on a high viz. As I wore overalls anyway, it saves me the bother of finding my vest and getting it snagged up on everthing.
its the same at premier foods knighton although I was wearing a hi-vis bomber jacket I was given a vest to wear on top? to be fair it was clean and neatly folded when it was handed to me and the security guy was sociable about it. it just seems a bit ott though 
MADBAZ:
strongbowpeter:
why didnt you have your own hi viz?as a professional driver i would expect you have a hi viz and safety boots as standard
I had my short sleeved vest, boots, bump cap, I’d have put on my hard hat & safety glasses If need be, but I wasn’t going to wear a sweat stinking vest just because (rumour has it) some muppet trapped his arm between a dock and a reversing truck. Surely the corrective action should be to stop peeps putting their limbs in harms way, not to make those limbs more visible.
I think out of spite I’m going to order one of these:
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I got this one and still have to wear a yellow vest over the top as most places don’t consider them to be Hi-Viz or there company approved.
Madguy 
you have to wear a pink hi-vis at coca cola…the worlds gone mad. 
TTX boy:
you have to wear a pink hi-vis at coca cola…the worlds gone mad.
Not as mad as you think as how many pink hi viz do you see generally? Everyone from Coppers to Crossing ladies have Hi Viz in green on now. If you think logically we are all getting a bit snowblind to them.
Trouble is people think of them like a forcefield - its just a bloody vest.
When I was a young nutter in 1978 I had a Volvo f88 which used to do what it said on the front grill…88!!!
larrylingo:
When I was a young nutter in 1978 I had a Volvo f88 which used to do what it said on the front grill…88!!!
ok i think you may have the wrong thread for this post… 
The common sense approach to 'elf an safety.
Dunno why they’re called “hi viz” anyways.
Once tha refelective bit wears off after a few washes, the yellow rest of it don’t shine in the headlights anymore, so you’ll end up blocking them out of your vision for “always being part of the scenery”.
Familiarity breeds contempt you see.
This story reminds me of the smelly old kit they used to make you wear at school if you turned up for PE and “forgot your kit”.
Skiddy shorts, sweaty (rather than “sweat”) shirt, and socks that looked like they’d been used to floss Rab C Nebitt’s arse. 
So I was told Royal Mail make you wear a long sleaved Hi-Viz because of this Royal Mail charged over death - Berkshire Live , I did hear these guys were best mates and just helping each other out shunting
Hiya i saw a program about the chap (german)who come up with the Hi VIS clothes idea.
the chap was almost blinded by a falsh explosion(we i think thats what it said) he was almost blind.
the chap messed about with paints and dyes to see what colour he could see the best.
well we all now know what he come up with…in the yellow their are particles of some chemical
that make the yellow stand out… you must NOT wash the clothing at any time!!!(bet the pong)
it also said their so many people walking around with HI VIS on nowadays the idea has gone mad,
plus no one takes much notice of yellow jackets anymore.
the reporter walked into a regular street, there was about 15 people with HI VIS on. coppers news paper man
street cleaners even kids walking to school. the reporter said it did give you street power,
he was just wearing HI VIS and asking people to move over the road.people did what he asked.
…the idea was invented in 1972. well thats what it said on the program. is it that long■■?
John
recently saw a woman with 2 dogs. all 3 had hi vis jackets/vests on
I love the debates you get into where they say your wearing the wrong colour hi viz and hard hat
I arrived at the old Berkshire Brewery and the security guard asked me to put hi-vis on, I repied I,d put it on when the lorry had stopped and when I got out the cab, he said no, I said its got oil on and did not want to mess the seat.He said put it on so I said OK, put the jacket on both arms in the sleeve but with the jacket in front like a straight jacket , he signed my card, PATHETIC !!
Went back to my place and showed my TM what I had done, they agreed to put hi-vis on in the cab is just a farce.
