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Safety vest keeps construction site safer

The use of traffic safety workers has become fashionable. Have the car drivers all become too stupid that it needs Wink manner, in order to additionally secure the clear signaling?

 

Compared to normal traffic signals, the entrance prohibition signs at the crossroads are oversized in size and placed on both sides of the road. It is also obvious for potential nearsighted drivers. A few meters after this, a traffic light that is constantly red, helps nobody to go to the building site. Nevertheless, the Basel-based civil engineering department is committed to providing a one-man field signal to a human colleague – a traffic engineer. His job: to prevent drivers with reflective vest from turning at the roundabout.

 

In most cases, Israel Keya, a transport service provider at Karoo Security, has nothing to do with, except in the hot weather under the sunshade, or every ten minutes two traffic cones to put aside the bus to the bus station and the Road immediately again. Have the car drivers all become too stupid that it needs Wink manner, in order to additionally secure the clear signaling?

 

The example is not an isolated case. In Basel on the Haulage, even a removal company was stopped by the police to promptly place two traffic safety employees in safety vest. They had the task of directing the traffic around their truck, which was half on the truck. The work would have to be stopped without delay, they said. Apparently, drivers are no longer able to master such standard situations.

Attention, site: children welcome

So, dear construction worker, now take a break and let the children ran with their reflective vest! They can also do this: tap nails into boards, put stones on mortar until it bangs, or drill holes in concrete, which it just dusts!

 

The center management of the future Holston Gallery shows heart for all the small builders who, with their parents in the past months, have observed the construction work at Neumunster’s largest building site, sometimes with a longing, and invites to the children’s construction site: May, children from 4 to 8 years of age can sometimes look around the building site, which so far they have only been able to marvel at from the outside.

 

Experts show them how to go with the plastering, walls, roofing and the carpenter, and of course the young guests are allowed to try their hand at expert craftsmanship. Helmet on, safety vest on and off you go!

 

The children get an insight into the real construction site day and may ask the accompanying masters the famous holes in the belly: What was the tallest crane? What weighs a wall concrete? Or what else is urgent to clarify.

 

The center management promises an exciting day at the construction site, with accompanying program and a small surprise. Guests go through the construction site stations in two groups, from 10 am to 2 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm. In between there is ample time to strengthen the little builders.

 

Several teams have already signed up, but there are still vacancies. Visitors should bring solid footwear and weatherproof safety clothing. Further information as well as the registration form can be found on the Internet. Registration is possible until the following Monday, 4 May.

 

Divers in safety clothing are looking for the Isla

Officials search for evidence of an extraordinary theft series. But first, they pick up very different things. One last check: the breathing mask sits, the hoses are neatly connected and the safety seatbelt is correctly positioned. Then it goes for Wolfram Rohrabacher into the dark gray-green depth. He works at TEE, the police technical unit, which is asked for help in difficult cases. This time it is about a quite extraordinary: In summer a gang with six members in the teensier valley on the road. There the group broke again and again in hotels and pensions and captured well 40 000 euro. In early November, three men and one woman were arrested; two suspected perpetrators are still on the run.

 

Searching in the deep water is a Sisyphus work

So the work of the police continues: in the murky, she is now looking for evidence like a lever tool with which you can open doors. Rohrabacher slides slowly into the water. Wolfgang Herring is also watching. He is a dive group leader from Dachau and wears a dark whole body suit with a self-inflating life jacket around his neck, radio and service weapon in the belt. It does not dive today, but on the slippery shore the safety vest is mandatory. He knows the importance of his work: Without many evidence and DNA traces, many cases cannot be elucidated.

 

There are usually three to four divers with safety clothing in the police inflatable boat: a linen guide, the diver himself and a rescue diver, who can immediately help his colleague to help. Herring fits well on its employees. “If they are caught, they must not dive under any circumstances, because the pressure can quickly damage the eardrum,” he says. On today there is no strong current, about half a meter per second. At 2 to 3 meters visibility, searching is a Sisyphus work. No dust whirling is at any rate the goal of every diver, explains herring.

 

 

ADAC distributes safety tests to first-graders

The Federal Statistical Office recorded 28 674 injured children on Germany’s roads during the past year, 71 of which were fatal. Whether you are traveling by car, by bike or on foot, road safety is always an important issue. “If you go to school, you have to deal with traffic,” says Jorgen Lecher, member of the board of directors for traffic, environment and technology at the ADAC Hessen-Thüringen, the first-graders at the ADAC.

 

Increase visibility

Here, the 122 students each receive a child-friendly safety jacket with hood and the silhouettes of traffic detectives Felix and Frieda, which increases the visibility of the children in traffic through reflectors and the signal color neon yellow to 140 meters instead of the original 25 to 40 meters. Thus, the drivers can adjust their pace and respond in dangerous situations earlier. Since the beginning of the action five years ago, about 4.5 million safety vests were distributed in Germany to first-graders and preschoolers; in Hessen alone, this year 58,000 are at more than 1,100 schools. “Every child who is killed in traffic is one thing too much,” says Hessian Minister of Education Alexander Lora. The small ones are disadvantaged in the road traffic in many ways, for example due to their small body size and their short legs. But dark clothing also makes children often overlooked. Particularly in the dark season’s autumn and winter, eye-catching clothing is therefore essential, says Lecher. A photo is designed to illustrate the problem to the primary schoolchildren: Four of the five illustrated children wear safety vests and are very good to look at, while the fifth is barely visible. Rose-Lore Schulz, the Deputy for the Deputy for Mayor Sven Gerick, also warned the children of inattention regarding the dangers of road traffic: “You only have to think of one thing: that you will come home safely.”

 

Get to other schools

Before the children move around the row to pick up their reflective vests, they promise to wear them on a regular basis. In the coming years, more schools will be reached with the action of the ADAC Foundation “Geber Engel”, for example by means of reporting by a private television station.

 

These services are on the road in the city

Crimes have always existed. In comparison, the police with safety vest are a modern creation. Once, in the middle Ages, it was a matter of citizenship to muck up tragedy. Anyone who witnessed a crime screamed “Zester und Mario”. And whoever heard the nagging was obliged to help. As it is to this day, everyone was allowed to hold a criminal and give it to the power of the state. Lawyers speak of the right of every person. At that time, however, the duties of every man went on significantly: ordinary citizens had to take on graffiti at night. Who could afford it, bought himself by a “watch money” free. In 1457, the city of Munich finally turned the security indulgence into a general tax and paid with the income. The history of urban security began 560 years ago.

 

If in the course of the centuries one finds for Munich, then the: Previously it went gloomily. The city is becoming more and more secure. At the same time, more and more security personnel in safety clothing are bustling on their streets and alleys, in their tunnels and trains. The city’s new security service is only the most recent example of a variety of protectors, which seems increasingly confused from the outside. Who is responsible for what? Who can do what? And: Does Munich need so much security?

 

The cool look at statistical data should not obscure the view of destiny. Nevertheless, soberness is advisable in heated times. The facts say: Munich was and is the safest city in Germany. And secondly, Munich is becoming safer. In 20 years, the number of crimes fell by 15 per cent. Also the number of violent crimes is declining, twelve percent in ten years.

 

Even if one of the gruesome amok run at the Olympia shopping center in 2016 is particularly painful in the memory, the shots at a young policewoman last week, or when one thinks of the death – such controversy is not a new phenomenon. The terrorist attack on the Oktoberfest is now 37 years. The Olympic assassination happened 44 years ago. And almost 100 years ago Minister President Kurt Eisner was shot dead in the street.

 

Over the past decades, the city has increasingly invested in its security. And if one can believe the statistics, it pays off. The latest example is the “municipal public service” of the city, KAD for short. As soon as they are hired and trained, 106 employees are to be on the road mainly at the main station, the Old Botanical Garden. They do not wear any guns, but a reflective vest and a stimulus spray. They are allowed a bit more than the right of everyone. They can make space and fines, search for suspects and, in the future, take them on a guard, which still has to be created. The KAD is to create an additional visible presence in those places in the city, where it is sometimes even more violent. However, it is by no means the only service to ensure order in the city.

A little rain cannot stop me

Despite drizzle weather, motorcyclists in safety clothing from Moers started their pilgrimage to the pilgrimage town of Kevlar.

 

It has now been 30 years since Bernhard Lauer, a self-motivated motorcyclist, traveled for the first time together with six like-minded people on a joint motorcycle trip to the pilgrimage town of Kevlar in Lower Rhine to bless himself and his motorbike. Next year five times as many bikers participated, and in the best years it was sometimes over 70.

 

For this reason, a maximum of 30 machines arrived at 11.30 am at the St. Barbara at 104. This was due to an unpleasant drizzle, which had already been going on since the early morning, which seemed to have attracted a lot of participants for a short time.

 

“Great location”

Those who had come nevertheless belonged largely to the “hard core”. For example, Horst Blondie, who had already been part of the first pilgrimage, and Klaus-Dieter, who came a little later? They and some more “regular drivers” took over again the traffic safety of the Mercer motorcycle column this time.

 

“It’s just for me to ride in a column with so many motorcyclists,” said Klaus-Dieter, shortly before he left, while he was wearing his bright orange safety vests. “And you also go with me again,” he looked at Father Lauer. But this was only meant symbolically, because Lauer cannot go to Kevlar for health reasons – and he had also sold his previously hot-loved BMW R850C on the previous day. So he waved the driver a bit wistfully, as they finally with their good wishes of Mayor Christophe their motorcycles and finally drove off. After an hour or so they would arrive, where they circumnavigate around the city with about two to three thousand other bikers, and then take the pilgrimage on the square.

 

The highlight of the Christian motorbike meeting, which has been held in Kevlar for 33 years, is the highlight of the day, from 8 pm onwards. The bikers in safety vest start with fully illuminated motorcycle headlights to a new tour, with final service and another blessing. This protects the receiver against accidents and their machines before the next pilgrimage before bulrushes and other engine damage.

 

Service car: Warning vest is now mandatory

If you are caught without reflective vest, you will have to pay 15 Euro of warning money from tomorrow (1 July). In addition, there may be problems with the insurance in the case of accidents.

 

Whether it is red, yellow or orange: starting tomorrow (Tuesday, July 1), the warning vest becomes mandatory in every car – even in rental cars and company cars. However, this news has not yet spread: 42 percent of the Germans do not know about the new regulation, just as the voucher portal deals.com in a survey. It is true that three quarters of the female (75 per cent) and two thirds of the male vehicle owners (69 per cent) already have a safety vest which has been mandatory in other EU countries for years. This means, however, that more than every fourth vehicle driver (28 percent) must retrofit as soon as possible.

 

The inadequate preparation of German drivers could also be attributed to the fact that 41 per cent consider the need to be unnecessary. This can avenge itself: starting from 1 July threat of 15 Euros, which in the case of the absence of a vest must be paid. If you do not wear safety vests at the place of the accident, it may be that the insurance does not pay.

The safety clothing of DIN standard EN 471 is very cost-effective: it costs from 2 €.

 

 

Warning vests are designed to make the route safer

18,000 pieces are distributed in the third school week.

With the distribution of 18,000 warning vests to the schoolchildren, Upper Austrian Civil Protection and the State of Upper Austria are again contributing to the promotion of traffic safety at schools. Under the motto “Safe school path”, a comprehensive coverage of civil protection safety bags with reflective vests will take place in the third school week.

 

Motorists see children earlier

Civil Protection President NR-Ed. Michael Hammer recommends that the parents wear the warning vests to their children in the spare time, because the tins will be visible to 150 and not only to 30 meters for other traffic users. As usual, it is to be checked again in the winter months whether the warning vests are worn. Manfred Limbic and the regional councilors Gunter and Elmer were positive: 50 percent of the children were wearing the safety vests.

 

Children master school path without the “parent taxis”

he Bickered participates in the nationwide campaign days. Until 29 September, children should be given more safety in road traffic, self-confidence should be encouraged and the daily traffic collapse in front of primary schools and kindergartens should be counteracted. The Bickered is also involved in this.

 

During the days of the event, all pupils are called upon to master the way to school without “parents’ taxis”. The same applies, of course, to all parents or accompanying persons.

 

Students meet at three stops

To this end, the Bickered has considered a very special concept: there will be reporting stations at three fixed “breakpoints” in the vicinity of the school. There, all students who are on foot can pick up a registration stamp every morning. The wearing of a safety vest gives even an extras stamp in the specially prepared bonus card. At the end of the campaign, the school class can collect the most stamps and each class has the chance to win one of the three coveted class winners’ cups.

 

Support by teachers and parents

“Thanks to the support of the entire teaching staff and many parents, we are able to carry out this great activity,” says Angelika, the school’s vice-president. “It is very important to us to counteract the daily traffic collapse before school by means of active prevention measures.

 

This is the ideal opportunity. Especially in terms of safety for children, so many cars are a high risk to the day-to-day schooling, “the Rector reports.”We hope that as many students as possible will be able to take part in the school path and have fun on foot after these days.”

 

With certificate and medal

After the end of the campaign days, each participant in reflective vest of the Bickered receives a certificate and a medal. These should remind you how much fun it is to be on the road. Whether alone or in the group: movement makes you mobile and brings momentum into the morning.

Simple instead of high-tech: solar technology for the desert

In deserts, the sun is almost always the same – they are ideal locations for solar power plants. However, the harsh conditions in the stemson are increasing by the high-tech installations. That is why the Ticino Company Airtight Energy has set itself the goal of developing a simpler and more favorable construction for solar power plants. For almost two years, she has been operating a pilot plant near Air Baca near the Moroccan port of Acadia. “An ideal place to test the technology and bring it to market maturity,” says project manager Giuseppe Lo Valdo in safety vest.

 

The Ticino pioneers have deliberately opted for a so-called solar thermal plant, because it is particularly suitable for hot sites – better than photovoltaic plants. These gain electrical current from sunlight, but lose their effect dramatically at high temperatures. In addition, the generated current can only be stored poorly.

 

This is different for solar thermal systems, which use energy from the sun’s heat radiation. In the case of so-called parabolic trough power plants, which are already commercially used, this works according to the following principle: Curved mirrors concentrate the solar radiation onto a centrally mounted pipe in which a carrier liquid circulates – for example, oil. This heats up, is passed to a heat exchanger and there brings water to evaporate. The steam drives a turbine. This type of power generation is not only good for use in the warm climate; it also allows storing excess heat for the night.

 

Low-tech and local materials

Such a parabolic trough power station, according to traditional construction, was recently opened in the Moroccan desert town. The Ticino Company Aright Energy uses the same principle in its new plant, but it goes one step further. It has optimized the process and improved the technology with new materials to make them more efficient, cheaper and more sustainable. The three collectors of the Air Baca power station are each 200 meters long and over 10 meters high. They are not made of expensive steel and transported from far away, but have been poured from cement on site. The collectors are covered with a transparent protective film which protects them from sand and dust.

 

The mirrors, which combine solar radiation with conventional solar thermal systems, have been replaced by a reflective heat transfer film in the new pilot plant. This is filled with air so that its pressure and thus its curvature can be regulated. This means that it can always be arranged in such a way that it optimally bundles the incoming solar radiation. The focal point is directed at hoses that connect two tubes positioned one above the other. The air flowing in the hoses is thus heated up to 600 degrees Celsius and rises from the lower to the upper tube.

 

The hot air can be used in two ways: one part flows directly into the furnace of a nearby cement plant. This does not have to be heated with fossil fuels – gas or oil – and emits less climate-damaging greenhouse gases. The remaining part of the hot air operates a turbine and thus generates electricity. If, however, no one is needed, the air is first directed into a heat accumulator. This is also simply constructed: a coarse gravel-filled underground container. There the heat can be stored for up to eight hours.

 

The concept is so impressive that the low-tech solar power station was nominated for the Innovate Prize in London in early February. It did not win, but Aright Energy sees a great future for its technology. By the summer of 2016 the pilot plant in Air Baca will be checked by external company workers in safety clothing. In the case of future tenders for Moroccan solar power plants, Aright Energy intends to be part of the electricity market. The location of Morocco is not only ideal for climatic reasons, as project leader Giuseppe Lo Valdo emphasizes. Thanks to its ambitious solar plan, the country offers a growing market for technology developers.