Things You Should Know About High Visibility Vests

High visibility belts are very important, especially when you are working in a hazardous and dangerous area wherein personal protective equipment is really needed.

If you happen to be among those people who wears high visibility vest, but don’t know exactly the essence and the basics about the vest that you are wearing, then check out these few and quick basics about high visibility vests.

1. Standards. The international safety equipment association (ISEA) and American national standards institute (ANSI) are the ones who mandate and determine the type and amount of material that items will need and where the material should be placed to meet the standards.
2. Material. High visibility vest has three types of material in it. the background material which is the neon orange, The retroflective material which are the bands or white pieces that reflect light; and lastly the combined performance material, these are the retroflective and background material combined together.
3. Types. There are two common types of high visibility vests, the performance class 1 or the performance class 2. Class 2 vest are more visible than its class 1 counterpart. Class 2 vest needs more material length than class 1.
4. Uses. High visibility vests are commonly used by road surveyors, construction workers, and etc. the vest provides safety in a lot of situations and increases visibility of the one wearing it during night time.
5. Warning. Class1 visibility belts didn’t match the federal requirements for road way works. Class2 visibility belts meet the day time requirement, but the user still needs more protection when working at night such as high-visibility ensembles with pants, long-sleeved shirt, and vest to provide more visibility.

High visibility vests are available at your trusted personal protective gears store, or you can also check out ISSC.com’s wide range of hi viz vests that will suite you.