Tag: safety vest

The SNSM – a 50-year-old alert with orange vest

The 50th anniversary of the SNSM (National Society for Rescue at Sea) drew the attention of the general public to all media. And, despite the regular spotlight on his regional training center, present here for over 30 years, some still learn his presence among us. “Many people were surprised that they were told that we were settled in Saint, the other week, during the civil security day, on the Place du Vegan,” says Vincent Milhaud, one of the trainers, also a military instructor. “Another event is our pride: the invitation of the President of the Republic to the presidential platform, July 14, with our 30 orange vests“. Like what, President Trump’s puff was not the only orange mark, in official rostrum.

 

Currently, every week-end from September to May, 18 young people, like every year, take a training of about 500 hours in sea rescue jobs, which include, in addition, 3 trips at sea. Many qualifications have the assurance of a month of work on the coasts of the metropolis or Corsica. They get: the PS1 and the PS2, the BNSSA, the coastal boat license, the SSA (surveillance and aquatic rescue), which is, in fact, a homologation of all the rescue techniques at sea. We see it, their viaticum is very solid. Many of them, afterwards, will work in the sanitary and social, will be firefighters, nurses, military, lifeguards, osteopaths, chiropractors… This training year-round is provided by about twenty trainers’ men and women, all volunteers with safety vest.

 

The quality of the SNSM’s courses is unanimously recognized and, for example, events such as Pause Guitar in Alba, on July 14 in Toulouse, or Defy Wind in Grison, the world’s largest event of its kind, call on them. In the latter case, they are not less than 40 rescuers on the lookout. Trainers and students from the center of Saint-Jewry come from a triangle Toulouse. Thomas in reflective jacket, one of them, has just been awarded the Silver Medal for Homeland Security, for 15 years of service: a recognition that makes them particularly proud of the collective work they have done.

 

 

A security kit to locate a person at sea

BAB so attaches to the wrist, ankle, on a safety vest or flat on the belt for example.

In case of emergency, simply pull on a strip to activate the device: 2 tubes which, once broken, generate a strong phosphorescent light for up to 16 hours in a row.

 

The beacon also includes a mirror strip that returns sunlight or a torch at night, a loud whistle, and an identification card of the person carrying that equipment.

 

Spot the fallen person

The electronic beacons relocate the victim, but it is the eyes that locate the person who has fallen into the water. In addition, few boaters are equipped with electronic distress beacons. For rescuers, light signaling, reflective material and fluorescent dyes are among the best ways to spot the person who has fallen into the water.

 

Technical description

Visibility: up to about 300 m at sea and beyond on land

Standard Reach storage sleeve

Life line to fix the device on the person or his equipment

High Visibility Orange Flame Standard 20471

Retro reflective strips Standard 20471

Phosphorescent tubes

Strip reflecting light (mirror effect)

Personal and medical identification tape

Linkage halyard about 1.20 meters, resistant to 150 kg traction

Whistle without ball (approx 60 dB)

Soft and rigid mat

 

To be visible with reflective vest for the road safety

The Luxembourg authorities are launching a new road safety campaign focusing on visibility. It is intended for pedestrians, joggers and vehicle drivers. “Think about it!” it is not an incentive to use your brain, to make a sensible reflection. Rather a recommendation of road safety, to be better seen on public roads, especially in conditions of unfavorable visibility.

 

“Between 2011 and 2015, nearly 65% of collisions between a vehicle and a pedestrian occurred in the dark, and in 2016, 8 pedestrians were killed on the road,” says the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure. Also, the latter has just launched an awareness campaign on the subject, together with the road safety association and the Grand Ducal police. The operation aims at a dual objective of road safety. On the one hand, encourage vulnerable road users to make them visible: in particular by wearing light clothing and even better by using reflective accessories.

 

Also encourage drivers to redouble their attention and adapt their speed in the presence of vulnerable users. The message will first be broadcast on social media and in the media. A campaign visual will also be displayed on RGTR buses as well as on 45 road signs in Luxembourg.

 

Some tips for thinking better

Road safety offers some concrete and common-sense practices to be adopted, to be better seen on the road, at intersections and pedestrian crossings. They are aimed at both the latter, joggers and motorists.

 

Pedestrians: be visible!

Wear clothing with reflective material, armbands, jackets, reflective strips, umbrellas and reflective pads – all accessories for long-distance viewing by motorists.

Walk in front of traffic on country roads and wear the mandatory safety vest.

Consider the speed and distance of approaching vehicles. Make sure you are seen by motorists.

Put a reflective collar on your dog.

Joggers: be visible!

Wear reflective armbands and wear clothing with integrated reflective elements.

Wear a safety vest that is mandatory if you take the road out of town.

Motorists: be visible!

Light fires when visibility conditions require.

Report your maneuvers in good time.

Adapt your speed.

Make sure windows and vehicle lights are clean.

Take into account the potential errors of pedestrians in the traffic.

 

Safety Quiz for Beginners in the course

“Actually, we wanted to shoot a film first, but then we were not satisfied with the quality,” says Jens, former apprentice of Deutschland GmbH. The 22-year-old in safety vest is now a trained specialist for warehouse logistics and has already “taken” a distinction together with his six apprentice colleagues before the successful completion of his apprenticeship.

 

At the beginning of November, the trainees went to Bremen and were awarded the “Main Prize for Trainees” for their “Safety Quiz for Beginners” in the course of a festive award ceremony – a multiple-choice questionnaire that drew attention to the safety concept of the service company with its branch.

 

“We have a good 22,000 square meters of storage space on the entire site,” says Wald, deputy branch manager and responsible for the company’s trainees. From above it looks like a small town with marked streets and walkways between the high shelves. Operational, but not hectic, it goes on and yet: Again and again forklift trucks and so-called “ants” – officially: between the shelves back and forth. “This is the ‘Blue Spotlight'”, explains Michael Dairyman, trainee apprentice. The forklift trucks drive forward as well as backwards and to warn of any vehicles or pedestrians coming around the corner, this blue point is already ahead. The fact that in this environment it is necessary to develop a safety quiz for beginners is illuminated, especially since the entering of the terrain and especially the storage halls is not permitted without safety reflective vest and safety shoes.

 

“When I start at half past six in the morning, it has happened to me that I forgot to put on my warning vest,” says Jennifer Martin, an apprentice for warehouse logistics. But then a colleague had come immediately and pointed it out. “Behavior Based Safety” is the name of this apparently quite successful approach to occupational health and safety, which also has a positive influence on the behavior of employees. And Kai Hurling adds, “I always have the safety shoes under my desk.” As a trainee to the merchant for forwarding and logistics services, the warehouse is not his core business, but just like everyone else, he is fully “in the fabric”.

 

Around this topic, the questions that the trainees have devised are also turning. “We have already laughed a lot when thinking about the possibilities for answers,” they say. You can tell the quiz. Photographs were used to depict scenes which partly show questionable behavior of persons on the site. A correct answer is a solution word. Everything relatively simple and yet: You can tell that behind this quiz are a lot of dedication and above all a lot of fun. “We would definitely do it again”, the apprentices of Geodes Deutschland GmbH enthusiastically tell their project. “You just do something different and get to know the other trainees,” adds Kai Hurling in warning vest.

 

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.

 

 

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 €.