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SAXON FIRST CLIPPERS RECEIVE SAFETY VESTS

School in sight. Kids in view. “, This is the motto of this year’s security campaign for first graders of the ADAC Foundation, in which more than 36,000 – from West Germany 760,000 – safety vests are distributed to first graders in Saxony.

As a prelude, Saxony’s Minister of Education Christian Pizarro visited the 95th elementary school “Caroline Neuter” in Dresden today. Together with representatives of the active partners, he presented the West to 104 ABC shooters. Minister of Education Christian Pizarro thanks the ADAC Foundation and the Deutschmark Post DHL Group for this important event: “The best protection for our new school students is to be seen. The girls and boys with vest are visible at dusk up to 150 meters for motorists. That’s five times as far as dark-clad children, “says Pizarro. The Minister also pointed out that traffic education was firmly anchored in the elementary school curriculum. Thus, in the first to fourth grade in the subject “Minehunter” the most important traffic rules and behavior are taught.

Wearing a safety vest with reflective tapes gives children and parents extra security when, in the fall, many first graders first master the way to school in the dark. Elementary school students often cannot properly assess the dangers on the roads and because of their height, they often lack an overview. In addition, the directional hearing is not yet pronounced and the field of view is limited. So the children can not always recognize approaching road users “out of the corner of their eyes”.

The signal effect of the belonging safety vest of the ADAC Foundation makes children visible from afar for all other road users. An effect that protects you not only on the way to school but also during your free time. It’s necessary to carry reflective materials.Helmet Bishkek, the board member for traffic and technology of the ADAC Saxony, sees the parents primarily responsible. “The safety vest only serves its purpose when worn. That should just be a matter of course. ”

The entire logistics – shipping, customs clearance, packaging, and shipping – from 30,000 parcels to 16,000 elementary schools will be provided free of charge by Deutschmark Post DHL as a contribution to cooperation. “We are proud to be involved in this important task. With our expertise as a logistics provider, we ensure that the safety vests arrive wherever they are needed: directly in elementary schools, directly with the girls and boys who, as first graders, often make their first independent steps as road users, “says Ina Dietrich , Head of the Department of Transport at the Deutschmark Post Dresden branch.

CHT survey shows more than 20% of cyclists ride at night without lights

Bicycle fires play a vital role in preventing accidents. A TCS survey carried out in the nine largest Swiss cities shows that there is still much to be done in this area. Thus, more than 20% of cyclists were driving at night without lighting and putting themselves in danger as well as other road users. In Geneva, there were even more than 50% of bicycles without traffic lights. With this survey, the TCS wants to send a clear message as part of the “Day of Light” and help raise awareness of this fundamental issue.

Of the bicycles surveyed, nearly 80% were properly equipped with front and rear lights, but the lighting was sometimes insufficient. The results differ a lot in different cities. The city of Aura (AG) is at the top of the list: 100% of the bikes tested were correctly equipped. Geneva, where barely half of the cyclists controlled circulated with adequate lighting, inherited the red lantern.

“Cyclists without fires do not only compromise their own safety. While driving without lighting, they also endanger other road users. Poor visibility is a common cause of accidents. Many of them could be avoided at little cost, “says TCS Communication & Campaign Manager Helmet Gruyere.

The risk of an accident is three times higher at night or in the dark than the day. If you add rain, snow or a backlight, it can even be multiplied by ten. Adequate lighting is important for two reasons: it increases the safety of cyclists because they themselves can better identify hazards, and it allows other road users to notice them earlier.

Rules in Switzerland

When it comes to bicycle lighting, the rules are clear: the bicycle must have a white light at the front and a red light at the rear. Both lights must be non-flashing and visible at a distance of 100 meters. In principle, the majority of commercially available bicycle lights meet these legal requirements. Nevertheless, there are better or less adapted lighting according to the needs and the different types of bicycles (see the TCS (2016)). In any case, it is important to be perfectly visible.

The importance of reflective clothing

In poor visibility, a person wearing dark clothing is seen by motorists only 25 meters away. In this case, it is often too late. Clothing with reflective tapes or reflective elements is visible at 140 meters and gives other road users more time to react. The fashion industry and distribution have realized that it is impossible to generalize the reflective vest for practical and aesthetic reasons. But today, there are many products on the market that reconcile style and safety. The MADE VISIBLE campaign supported by the Road Safety Fund wants to encourage this development by offering on its website a useful overview of the solutions available and easy to implement on a daily basis.

Sdis deploys new outfits for its firefighters

The new outfits distributed to firefighters no longer have reflective strips. The Departmental Fire and Rescue Service evokes reinforced security measures.

The Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) has been providing new uniforms for professional firefighters and volunteers for a year. Indeed, the SPF1 uniforms replaced by the TSI uniforms (for “service and intervention clothing”). This change aims to “modernize the old military outfit used for forty years and that came to an end,” says the commander David Roux.

The end of the reflective strips makes react

The Directorate of Civil Security, attached to the Ministry of the Interior, has made several adjustments to propose an outfit being modern, comfortable and ergonomic. But apart from the shape of the collar and the trousers, the absence of reflective strips near the shoulders and ankles challenges.

And a volunteer firefighter, Chief Warrant Officer Luc Darden, jumped up: “When we come to an accident and get out of the truck, the first thing we put on the ground is the foot. “Without reflective tape on the lower limbs, firefighter Braid fears for his safety and that of his colleagues while they are brought to intervene in villages sometimes not provided with public lighting:” I am afraid that motorists do not see any more firefighters on the roadsides, especially at night, and there are deaths. As a team leader, when we go to six I want us all to come back. ”

The two reflective strips placed at the height of the shoulders and legs met the high visibility standards of yesteryear, but “these have evolved,” says Commander Roux. A dramatic event notably upset the precautions taken in terms of visibility and safety in a general way. On November 29, 2002, five firefighters died during a road accident, all mowed by a car launched at nearly 160 km / h on a limited portion of 90 km / h.

The Ministry of the Interior then entrusted Colonel Christian Porn, head of the Civil Protection Inspectorate, with the task of studying and making proposals to improve the active and passive safety of the workers. The recommendations include improved visibility of personnel and vehicles in intervention.

No bands but a reflective vest

New recommendations made in terms of high visibility and in addition to a reinforced markup and new instructions addressed to fire and rescue centers in case of intervention on public roads, the firefighters equipped with yellow or red reflective vests that they put on over their TSI or SPF1 outfit.

“The vest ensures the safety of the agents and the visibility of the latter is ensured as long as they are in their vehicle thanks to the markup (a perimeter of security is assured thanks to cones),” pleads the commander David Roux, while specifying that the reflective materials have not disappeared on the outfits used to fight fires.

Finally, the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service specifies that the new TSI outfits are made from fireproof materials and that the number of closures and pockets has been revised upwards.

3 urgent challenges to overcome the crisis of yellow vests

The yellow vests confirmed the democratic possibilities of the digital. And the fact that the lives of precarious citizens cannot be adjustment variables.

To think about the mobilization of yellow vests is first to recognize the complexity. Behind the apparent unity of a symbol, the fluorescent chasuble, the movement is actually plural, contradictory, diverse, touching, chaotic, disturbing. It would be fair to see not a lake whose surface is frozen but rather a lively and moving river, as Arthur Rimbaud opposed “the black and cold wolf” with “surf and currents”. The place is the unacceptable violence we saw last Saturday, in Paris among others. But these drifts should not hide the fact that yellow vests who wear reflective vests with reflective tapes know how to assemble in a responsible way. Their demands are sometimes confusing but they also carry a glaring demand for social justice and a more participative democracy: denunciation of class contempt, improvement of purchasing power, the crisis of consent to tax.

This plasticity and spontaneity have a corollary: fragility. The extremes try to infiltrate it. They all play, with minor variations, small identical music. “The elites have betrayed”. “The elites are deaf”. “The elites are disconnected”. The ecological emergency is evacuated in a silent cynicism. This dangerous speech, everyone can measure the effectiveness of our fellow citizens in precarious situations, destabilized by decades of crises and a pessimism forged by inequality and lack of prospects. There is an echo to these attempts at recovery: the misunderstanding and disinformation between which the power seems to oscillate. One day qualified by a minister of “guys who smoke cigarettes and ride diesel”, another time reduced to far-right thugs in a hurry to fight, the majority of yellow vests see their sincerity denied and their claims discredited. This trait is accentuated by a media treatment that is now primarily the first place to excesses and slippages.

In the course of a lifetime, it is increasingly difficult for workers or employees to access the status of a manager, for example, an inequality that is also reproduced between generations.

The recognition of this plasticity-fragility is a base around which can engage a suture work. It is to be conducted in three directions.

Santa Claus yellow vests to distribute the gifts

Santa Claus abandoned his sleigh and his reindeer to disembark on a motorcycle.

The operation initiated for several days takes place this Sunday afternoon. Following an idea launched by an activist, the yellow reflective vests of the Pau agglomeration celebrated Christmas this Sunday, December 23 during a recreational afternoon.

Dance show music and gifts giving to children were on the program. The arrival of Santa Claus in a red tuxedo with a fluorescent yellow vest and reflective tape was not lacking pace.

“I lost weight but it’s because of taxes!” pioneered Santa Claus. The public seems to be responding to the initiative and the shipment of gifts is gradually starting.

A festive atmosphere quite far from the tension that can reign on certain events in major cities.

How to care for safety on the water?

Henry Missy, secretary of the District of the Polish Sailing Association, instructor and experienced sea skipper advises on how to ensure safety on the water.

What is this “Wear It” action?

In Polish, it means “put it on”. This is an educational campaign in our region initiated by the Water Rescue Service. We, sailors, join in. The idea is to make people aware that you must wear a life jacket when using swimming equipment.

And people wear?

I see a significant improvement in consciousness. Education brings results. Wearing a safety vest is not trash, just a proof that we care about our safety.

Why a dry swimmer vest? Even if it falls into the water, it will not drown.

Unfortunately, he may drown. We swim the most when it is warm. The body is heating up. Contact with cold water, the temperature difference can cause thermal shock. There may be different situations on the water. The sailor can be hit with a boom and lose consciousness. The basic task of the vest is to keep the man on the surface and in such a position that the head is above the water. A special collar is used for this.

It’s a basic function. What is the other?

The vest protects against the loss of body temperature, it is important if you will have to wait longer for rescue. Well, it ensures visibility. Let’s remember the person in the water can see only the head or hands. A brightly colored vest with reflective material will allow you to see a man from a distance. For example, a motor boater who swims on scooters or motorboats quickly.

Which vest to choose? There are many kinds.

The person not able to swim should wear a life jacket. With increased buoyancy, with a collar. Good swimmers can wear a lighter safety vest. In any case, it should be selected for human height and weight. It must keep us afloat, be well-matched and tied. It should also have reflective elements, like reflective tapes, this is very important.

You have been sailing on the seas for years. How is there security?

It is essential. Experienced sailors do not go on board without a vest. These marine are additionally equipped with a whistle to call for help, sometimes a transmitter. Marine vests are a bit more comfortable than ordinary ones because they are pneumatic. They only fill with air when in contact with water or after unprotected by the user. On the decks is extended, to which sailors in difficult weather conditions fasten special braces, this prevents falling overboard.

What would you give the most important advice to water sports enthusiasts?

The greatest enemy of a man who comes into contact with water is alcohol. You must remember about this.

Riding in the dark: that is to be considered

In autumn and winter, it cannot always be avoided that one moves in the dark with his horse. We explain which equipment is indispensable and what else needs to be considered.

Autumn has its own charm: clear, sunny days, leaves shine in gold and red, the leaves have fallen to the ground, rustling with every step… At the same time the hours of sun are steadily decreasing, dusk and darkness break-in earlier. Then as a working man, who usually can only spend time in the evening for his hobby, equestrian sport, cannot enjoy the luxury of a lit space or even a riding arena, must either forego the movement of the horse during the week or into the dark out the car. However, if you pay attention to a few things and get the right equipment, riding in the dark can be very special. Especially on clear moonlit nights you literally get to know the surroundings of the stable in a new light.

No fear of the dark

Incidentally, horses look a lot more relaxed than humans when they go out in the dark. Because horses look good in low light. Tapetum lucidum is the name of the responsible reflective layer in the back of the horse eye. It ensures the incident light passes through the retina twice. This enhances the response of the photoreceptors there. In addition, horses have three times as many receptors as humans, so even a weak light stimulus is better perceived and the contrast between light and dark intensified.

Although horses see well in the dark, it is advisable to get used to the changed circumstances slowly before the first nocturnal rides and first go out at dusk. First, you should familiarize the horse on the usual routes with the additional equipment such as headlamp, reflective ceiling or even the headlights of oncoming cars. If you feel uncomfortable in the dark and you are alarmed at the slightest noise, a night trip with a horse is probably not such a good idea. Horses are sensitive animals and often perceive their rider’s mood faster than they do themselves. The horse can easily be infected by the insecurity of the biped and transformed into a tense fearful rabbit. If horse and rider are restless and tense, the ride not only does not give any real pleasure, it can also be dangerous for humans and animals in such circumstances.

Anyone who wants to or has to go into the countryside in the dark and even participates in traffic must equip themselves accordingly. This is true even for short trips to the tarmac, for example, when you lead the horse from the paddock into the stable and then walk or cross a road. Anyone driving a car knows how bad the view is at dusk. Pedestrians and even large animals such as horses can easily be overlooked. Equipment with reflective safety equipment is therefore mandatory, says Daniela Wolf, “Safety is absolutely paramount. If someone asks me if reflexes are really always necessary, I ask a counter question: ‘Do I always need a helmet when riding – or is it enough if I wear one now and then?’ “Traffic is steadily increasing, and riding routes are mostly in the urban area getting harder and harder to reach. “When I’m on the road and in the field, safety should be in the foreground. And especially in the twilight, in poor visibility through fog or rain or even in the dark one is always dependent on the – timely – reactions of others in their own safety. Everything that draws attention to me and my horse at an early stage is clearly an advantage, “says Wolf.

Equestrian sports retailers now offer a variety of reflective riding equipment, which brings great benefits at low prices. Comprehensive equipment for rider and horse ensures good visibility in oncoming and subsequent traffic, but also from the side. “You can usually do without elaborate technology. The light clothing for rider and horse has proven itself in practice and proven to be practical and functional, “explains Wolf. The range of light articles is now large. Particularly striking because of the large coverage is a reflective blanket, which makes it easier for drivers to perceive the contours of the horse better. It is important that the ceiling is held in a fluorescent neon color and also has reflective stripes.

The fact that the rider should also be equipped with reflective clothing has several reasons: First, it increases the reflective surface, which makes the rider-horse team all the more visible and better. In addition, during a ride, it may well come to situations in which the rider takes down and leads the horse. In such a case, a rider without a vest would be virtually invisible to traffic. Of course, you should also consider the worst case: The horse shoes, makes a sentence on the side, the rider crashes and comes hurt or even unconscious on the road to lie down. The lack of a reflective garment could have fatal consequences in this case.

The horse can be more visible by additional articles. We recommend reflective leggings or goofballs. The headlights of the car illuminate primarily the road, so the area near the ground – the farther away, the closer to the ground is the illuminated area, as the light beam is lowered by about one centimeter per meter. Accordingly, objects on the street level are first illuminated, horseback and rider backs are often detected by the headlights when the vehicle is already very close. Gaiters, however, come faster in the range of the light cone and are thus visible to the driver earlier. In principle, one should buy leggings for all four legs, in case of doubt, but at least the left front and the left hind leg provided with a gaiter. The leg movement of the horse additionally enhances the reflective effect and makes the pair even more alert.

So that the horse is quickly and completely visible to oncoming cars, reflective tapes for bridles and reins, as well as reflective necklaces and ear covers are available. For those who really want to play it safe, tail guards, halter covers and rods in reflective materials also available. Also, individual reflector strips, such as for attachment to arms or legs, are available. Additional boot and stirrup lamps mark the lateral corner points of the rider-horse pair and help motorists to maintain the necessary safety distance when overtaking.

Police officers shone on reflective elements of pedestrians and cyclists

Bicyclists and pedestrians are also on the roadside. And it was precisely on them that the traffic safety actions of police officers.

The event was about walking and cladding seen by other road users, even after dark, under dim lighting conditions.

“Traffic safety actions took place in the afternoon and evening hours,” Eva, spokesperson for the Czech Police said.

Traffic police officers, as well as their colleagues from the district departments carrying out the patrol service, did not stay in one place during the event, but the places alternated. On mobile stations, they checked whether riders on bicycles and pedestrians kept their obligation to be marked with reflective materials even in low visibility when moving outside the village.

“None of those checked did find any mistakes,” Eva confirmed, with the police distributing reflective tapes or braces at the event. “During the event, colleagues checked a total of thirty-three pedestrians and seven cyclists,” the spokesman added.

The obligation to be visibly labeled with elements reflecting reflector light, reduced visibility while driving or walking outside the village has been in force in the Czech Republic since February 2016.

Luminous vest for first graders

62 first graders from three classes will receive their new ADAC safety vests on Friday.

104 first graders benefit from this year’s ADAC safety campaign under the motto “School insight, Kids in view”. Günter Tuchman from ADAC handed over bright neon yellow safety vests to the children on Friday morning, with which they will be more visible on the road in the future.

Guided by their class teachers, the ABC shooters also put on their vests immediately. In Emmendingen, the headmistress of the primary school, Julia, participated for the first time in the campaign for the first graders.

At the school, there are three first classes, which were equipped with the luminous vest. 20 students attend class 1a with class teacher Stefanie Weiner, 21 class 1b with class teacher Francisco Schmitt and also 21 class 1c with class teacher Laurence Kahlo. In Kiesinger, a total of 42 first graders with their class teachers Brecht and Angelika Zimmermann were given the new ADAC vests with reflective materials. Günter Tuchman, who asked the children not only to wear the vests on their way to school but also to put on striking protection as often as possible when they are in traffic, also during their leisure time activities, undertakes the handover as part of the security campaign.

Nationwide 760,000 freshmen receive safety vest

Elementary school students often cannot properly assess the danger on the road and because of their height, they often lack an overview. In addition, the directional hearing is not yet pronounced and the field of view is limited. So the children cannot always recognize approaching road users from the corner of their eyes. Due to the signal effect of the safety vests of the ADAC Foundation, the children themselves are already visible from afar. Therefore, the vest also brings an important advantage for motorists, especially since every year shortly after school starts with autumn and winter, the dark seasons begin.

The security action of the ADAC Foundation takes place annually and is organized for the region Emmendingen each by the ADAC. Nationwide, the ADAC Foundation equips 760000 newcomers with safety vests made with reflective tapes. The entire logistics, shipping, customs clearance, packaging and shipping of 30,000 parcels to 16,000 elementary schools are provided by Deutsche Post free of charge each year as a contribution to the ADAC campaign.

With seniors about safety

During the meeting, which took place in the commune, policewomen handed out reflective vests to seniors. In addition, uniforms warned seniors against the methods of action of fraudsters and thieves. We hope that this meeting will positively affect the safety of its participants.

Last week, policemen visited a group of seniors in the village. The purpose of the visit at the meeting of the Circle of Country Housewives was to draw the attention of seniors to how dangerous situations can be avoided.

Policewomen discussed the popular and less common methods of fraudsters and thieves who often want to take advantage of older people. Taking advantage of this opportunity, uniforms also cited examples of crimes from the country, as well as examples from the area of commune closer to seniors. In this way, the speakers wanted to draw attention to the fact that everyone should be vigilant because the fraudsters can try to cheat anyone, no matter where he lives. The uniforms also warned that thieves do not always knock on our door. Sometimes it happens that they are calling or sending text messages to the phone and also then be very vigilant not to become their victim.

In addition, policewomen also discussed the rules of safe movement on the roads. To improve the safety of the meeting participants, the officers gave them reflective vests with reflective tapes. We hope that seniors will use them whenever they go for a walk after dark.