Tag: safety vest

Reflective clothing keeps you to be seen in dense fog

Traffic moves at weight Saturday morning on highway A2 Bucharest – Constanta, because of fog, informs the Romanian Police Center.

 

Thus, because of fog, traffic on the A2 highway Bucharest – Constanta carries hampered, between kilometers 15 and 45, and visibility is reduced – in some places – under 100 meters.

 

Traffic Police in safety vest advice drivers to take their precautions required for traffic in fog conditions: reducing speed, increased range in motion and proper use of lights. In addition, it is important not stop bands on traffic and emergency lane highway.

 

In case of power failure or technical failure, turn on hazard warning lights, equipped with your reflective vest, remove occupants off the roadway and place reflective triangles, one after the other, at greater distances.

 

Also Saturday morning, was issued a code yellow glaze with reflective material, in counties in western, northern, central and south. Code yellow glaze is valid until Saturday at 12:00.

See and be seen – safety vest

Those who like fast running out, let us know: at this time of the year you will find it hard a time to train in daylight. The road to and from work and school is often made in the dark. And who in the fall anyway plant daytime training, confronted often with gray skies and rainy conditions. How do you make sure you can see where you are and, more importantly, how to prevent others see you in the dark about the head?

 

Fortunately, there are more and more products available to ensure that other road users you do not overlook. Sport.nl put some tips for you at a glance: sportswear

Buy sportswear? Please note that there have been processed reflective pieces of fabric at strategic locations. When the lights of a car, a lamp or the light of a bicycle shed light fabric on these pieces, this light material. This increases your visibility considerably. Almost all sports brands have high visibility clothing in their collection.

 

Anyone who in the dark sports, they must have: lights that you are clearly visible to others. Lately previously used mainly LED lighting: giving bright light, long lasting and is not too expensive to buy. You bind the lights easy for your arms and, if desired, your ankles, making you stand out well. A big advantage is that they weigh almost nothing. Many lights you can not only turn, but also blink, thus further increasing the attention. For a few Euros you go well on the road lit!

 

Reflective vest

It is useful if there is reflective pieces of fabric is incorporated into your workout clothes, but even more striking with a separate safety vest. You’ll of course not want to be limited in your movement. Where this kind of vests currently used around you fluttered in sports, is the fit of it now improved a lot. Also in the field of materials are major steps put forward: the fabric breathes more. You actually hardly notice you’re wearing a vest. But your fellow road users even more!

 

See for yourself

When you’re running in the dark, it is a mistake easily made. Such as stumbling you have quite a long load. Will not only be seen but also see where you are going? Wear a kind miner’s lamp to your head or choose a pet lamp. Or take a hand torch with you. There now (completely waterproof!) Even with an LED beam the road ahead well-lit. A red colored LED light on the back of the lamp makes sure you are highly visible to following traffic. This kind of flashlights can be obtained from the better sporting goods. Thanks so convenient!

 

Spoiled for choice

There are many more items available that increase your visibility. What to think of a lighted sports armband which you can put your Smartphone, LED illuminated shoelaces and shoe clips with reflective tape? Pay a visit to a sporting goods store and let you informed about sports lighting. Bring yourself and other road users unnecessarily at risk and make sure you are seen!

Motorcyclist in safety vest calls for safety and visibility

Spring is coming, the time for many bikers to meet their engine again stable. The Traffic and Transport Council (HVO) Groningen, the Traffic and Transport Consultation VVBD and the police in safety vest help bikers love to stay safe on the road. This spring they ask to go through a campaign of attention for safe motorcycling and motorcyclists give tips to protect and visible on the road. The slogan of the campaign this year is: “Motorcycling is a party as you stick to the dress code.

 

Good riding gear can save lives. A motorcycle suit of leather, nylon or fabric protects shoulders, elbows, back, hips and knees well when dropped. Thick gloves and high shoes or boots provide extra protection. Finally, wear a properly fitting helmet of course mandatory.

 

Visibility is not only good protection, but also stand out is important to prevent accidents. Clothing with reflective material enhances the visibility of motorcyclists. The road itself is wise to keep a sufficient distance to other road users. Continue working lighting is important to look ahead. Other road users see motorcyclists better than additionally.

 

Technical condition finally motorcyclists do well to check their engine before the first Spring Rally. The last stop in the winter for example, is not good for the tire. Also practice driving here can prevent accidents.

 

Flyers and posters via Face book and Twitter indicate the HVO and the police the next time tips to remain safe and visible on the road. Also, motor clubs, dealers and meanwhile campaign posters and flyers receive chance to hang out and share. In addition, the campaign from late March to see across is the county on reflective tape signs along the side of the road.

Japanese ‘invisible’ train use reflective material

Trains made with reflective element that reflects so strong, that they can blend into the landscape. It sounds more futuristic than it is. In 2018, they should whiz by Japan with nearly 600 kilometers per hour.

 

The new bullet trains are designed by the acclaimed architect, who previously developed buildings that went up in the area. They used for this purpose an extremely reflective material. The train will thus are not really invisible, but very unobtrusive.

 

Scientists have been trying for decades to create an invisible stuff, but succeed so far to avoid the only radar detection, not even to outwit the human eye. This is still some improvement needed in nanotechnology.

 

Initially seven trains will be made every eight wagons. Hopefully, the designer also thought of a way to warn bystanders in safety vest as the train rumbles down on them.

Safety vest for bike’s owner

“Is your bike in order, you will receive a road safety gadget,” said police spokeswoman Isolde Van Eenooghe. “Deliver you an extra effort to be visible, for example by wearing a fluorescent safety vest, and then you win a cinema ticket or a voucher bike.” The cyclists, who are not in order, need to bring their bikes in order within a week and checked by the police.

 

Collaboration

Road safety around schools is a priority for the local police. The working group traffic and mobility education, short vemoe, has been working for several years to teach students to safely participate in traffic. Under the motto “Swim you learn in the pool, biking on the road pulls vemoe to the schools to teach the children, both in the classroom and on the road, main road and cycling skills. In secondary schools, the working group is in dialogue with the next generation of drivers.

 

Road safety is also a theme that lives among the members of the youth council Knokke-Heist. “We stand 100 percent behind this action,” said Philippe Hill Mans. “Especially during the dark months, it is important that school children stand out in traffic. A good bicycle or wearing fluorescent and reflective material can make a difference. With the gadgets and prizes we want extra motivate young cyclists clearly visible to be. ”

 

Preventive controls

The local police continued in October preventive bicycle checks in the elementary schools of Damme and Knokke-Heist. In total, 741 bikes were checked. About three in 10 bikes were technically out of order. 69 bikes had no or a faulty bike. “Our campaigns and preventive controls have become more effective,” says Isolde Van Eenooghe. “At the start of controls in 2013 was one of the two bikes out of order. In particular, mountain bikes and racing bicycles are a problem. Parents often forget that these sports bikes must be equipped in darkness with lights and reflectors.”

 

The police in safety reflective vest and youth council checked during the operation in 2015-2016 a total of 476 bicycles in Knokke-Heist. Of these, 109 bicycles traffic safely. The cyclists were given a report warning and had to put in order their bikes within the week.

Many Nazis marching with wearing reflective vest

Several hundred Nazis in the Nordic resistance movement and their supporters in reflective vest marched today from the dome to Park in central Borlänge, where they have given speeches. Many of those involved in the Nordic Council of Resistance, NMR, is dressed in black pants and white shirts.

 

– You see that several of them have safety vest under their shirts. Some have riot shields, reports Swedish Radio reporter Jenny.

But there are also more people who join the train – a first estimate is that it involves about 200 people in total.

Swedish Radio has tried to interview participants NMR but do not want their followers talk to journalists.

 

– It was still a girl who said she was here to demonstrate against what she sees as treason, but then she stopped when she was talking to me – they should not be interviewed by anyone other than their own media, reports Jenny, reporter on the scene.

The plan is that the Nazis will march against Maserhallen and then down towards the center of Borlange.

 

And there are many who are looking at the Nazi demonstration.

– It does not look good, says a person we met.

Mats Karlsson is another of the standing and watching.

– I do not understand how they can set up and go like that and cry. I think it is wrong, he says. Someone met up with the Nazis and the police had to make a quick intervention.

 

P4 Dalarna talked to the police spokesman, Stefan Dangardt, about 13:40, and he says they have rejected some people dressed as clowns who were heading toward a place where the police thought they could disrupt order. But the police in safety clothing have not been deprived of liberty someone and says that situation so far is in the planning.

– It’s green location, said Stefan Dangardt.

Road safety: Caution on the road in this year end

If a 16% decrease in fatalities is observed, the numbers of accidents and injuries are rising. In addition, the number of motorcyclists without safety vest killed is clearly increasing compared to the same year.

While the main factors of accidents are excessive speed and not adapted to driving conditions, 60% of accidents in light vehicles took place under the influence of alcohol or drugs, weekends and early morning. The number of young people killed (16- 27 years) is 35% against 47% in 2015, from the Beginning of the year.

 

Strengthening road checks

Reeve ad late awareness campaigns complemented by monitoring roads to fight against road accidents. Parallel operations “SAM” will be conducted at various events to encourage the organization of return by appointing a designated driver “one who leads, not drinking.” Breathalysers will be also distributed to road users on the site of festivities to enable them to check their driving ability. Police and gendarmes will be mobilized on the roads department and intensify their controls on hazardous behavior such as speed, alcohol, taking narcotics or the use of mobile phones while driving.

 

New measures

New measures against excessive speeding and driving with fake licenses have just taken beings. And since 20 November 2016, vehicles being tested in excess of 50 km / h (or more) of the speed limit are immobilized and placed immediately impounded by the police in reflective vest.

Hitherto limited to cases of recurrence of excessive speeding, a misdemeanor punishable by three months’ imprisonment and 3750 euro fine, the immobilisation faculty is now possible from the finding of a first passing offense 50 km / h or more.

 

The second measure to create a specific offense of driving a vehicle by use of a driving license forged or falsified, which will now be punishable by five years imprisonment, 75 000 Euros fine and several sentences further, including the compulsory confiscation of the vehicle Drink or drive, choose…

In 2015 and 2016, alcohol remains, with speed, one of the two main causes of road deaths. For the year-end holidays, the Road Safety alerts the public and offers solutions. The film “The Last Glass” and two radio spots revive the “shock wave” of pain occurred after a road accident after an alcohol at a party. A series of films and radio spots, of a different kind and tour with celebrity hosts of television and radio, giving good tips to confiscate the keys to a friend who drank too much without getting angry with him permanently.

 

Motorcyclists: Beware Danger!

A motorcycle, the greatest danger is to think that there is none. In 2015, users of motorized two-wheelers accounted for nearly a quarter of road deaths with 614 riders and 155 motorcycles. For the same distance, a motorcycle driver is 23 times more likely to be killed on the road a motorist.

Since Sunday, November 20, 2016, wearing gloves is mandatory for certified drivers and passengers (even minor) of the two or three-wheeled motorized. In this context, the Road Safety has launched a campaign, reminding users and passengers of motorcycles and scooters the value of their hands and the need to protect them with gloves. Since 1 January 2016, all drivers of motorized two-wheelers, motorized three-wheelers or motor quadricycle without fairing is also required to have a high visibility vest on him or in a storage of the vehicle.

 

The Inter ministerial Committee for Road Safety, met on 2 October 2015, decided to generalize the entire fleet of two circulating, motorized three-wheelers and quads pleading to legal size.

The owners of these vehicles therefore have a period of just over six months to come into compliance with the plate size. Otherwise, from 1 July 2017, any vehicle driver intercepted an illegal, illegible or removable plate will be sanctioned with a 4th class fine is € 135.

The standardization of license plates will simplify the control of security forces and allow equal treatment of the user’s vis-à-vis the radar.

The prefecture finally recalls that the front glass is dangerous for road safety. From the outside, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to maintain eye contact with the driver and thus to anticipate his conduct. The surteintage contributes, moreover, to conceal serious offenses such as the use of mobile devices or the port default seatbelt.

At a time when the terrorist threat is particularly high, recalling the ban preserves the ability of law enforcement to react to unsafe behavior of a driver or passenger of a vehicle. Surteintage the front windows will be banned from 1 January 2017. The offenders will face a fine of 135 Euros which will be accompanied by a withdrawal of 3 points on the driving license.

 

Road safety: A tragedy was averted on highway

Life expectancy for a pedestrian without safety vest driving on the emergency lane on the highway does not exceed 20 minutes. When a vehicle breaks down and is forced to stop on the side, all occupants must exit the vehicle from the outside to the floor and get behind the security barrier. Stay in the vehicle represents an extreme danger. The couple in their sixties, who was traveling in a motorhome yesterday on the A62 in the direction Bordeaux-Toulouse, had assimilated this precaution.

 

When the driver found that his vehicle had burst, he pulled over to the emergency lane, and with his wife, they are out. They were waiting and wearing a safety reflective vest when troubleshooting heavyweight violently hit the back of the camper, spraying almost in shock. The two occupants have been spared because they were outside. The trailer ended up in the ditch, he was carrying shutters. No contamination was found by rescue. Firefighters carried the slightly injured in hospital Agen.

 

In case of failure, it is recalled that before out of the car to get behind the slide with all the other passengers, the driver must put on his yellow vest that should be in the cabin. In the event of a puncture, do not change the wheel itself, calling for service on a terminal located every 2 km, walking behind the zipper for access.

A safety vest as a ticket to concerts

 

What if you could go to a Coldplay concert without paying anything? Two journalists from vice magazine did. Zoo, concerts and cinema, happens everywhere: a safety vest.

 

Winning panoply

They made a journey. David and his friend Sean, both Australian journalists for vice magazine, had an idea of a crazy and unpublished report. Using a fluorescent safety vest, they had the goal of returning to any private event for a day.

 

“When you see a guy with a fluorescent yellow vest straddling a fence or going straight ahead of a bouncer, you assume he’s there to fix something. That’s why a fluorescent vest will help you all your life. ”

 

Using false walkie-talkies and their panoply then complete, they began by getting into a cinema, until the concert of Coldplay.

 

Wearing our fluorescent reflective jackets, Sean and I walked past the guy at the entrance counter and walked back into the first room on our way.

 

This was a crazy challenge brilliantly performed by the two compasses, an experience dreamed by all music lovers. After a visit to the zoo, David and Sean encrusted at the Coldplay concert and mingled in safety.

 

To be totally honest with you, getting into the stadium has not been easy. We had to go to several different entrances and come back several times, but we were relatively quiet compared to the stakes. To our surprise, everything went pretty well. In the end, we managed to get back. (…) I’ve never been a big fan of Coldplay, actually. Except that on that day, when charging the group of Chris Martin for free with a vulgar waistcoat, everything changed.

 

A day full of adventure that ends in beauty, all thanks to a crazy theory: that of breaking all prohibited in this case, thanks to a safety reflective vest.

Less more Flying tanks and flak safety jackets

It was held Wednesday morning at the headquarters of the CGIL of Rimini the second Organization of the police union conference.

It was held Wednesday morning at the headquarters of the CGIL of Rimini the second Organizational Conference of the police union Silp for CGIL. The meeting was introduced by the Provincial Secretary of Andrea category and continued with the report of the Regional Secretary Silp Daniele and with the intervention of the provincial. “In the security sector we are seeing in the last 10 years – said Daniele – a cut of € 9 billion and witness an increase of 23 billion for the Defense. Instead of F35 and tanks we believe that our country has greater need of flying and flak safety jackets, in short, all those tools to enable us to fight crime in the city, to give answers to people’s fears, to work, for example, the immigration phenomenon that unfortunately is transformed into a police problem and public order, while it would be an issue that should run the company. We are concerned this cut to resources as has worried us very much moving of the State Forestry Corps, from military to civilian police within the Carabinieri. And ‘This is a decision that goes against the trend to the police most modern and advanced. In our opinion, or we reverse the trend and return to invest in this sector, or the citizen inevitably will suffer, will suffer the city and also we will suffer. ”

 

In the document of the Organization Conference on “more synergies, more participation, more protection” where reference is widespread insecurity, fear of attacks, concerns about crime, the economic crisis, such as social vulnerabilities that engage the police in safety vest, stressing the strategic role that the Silp CGIL has to play in the key of social cohesion: through interaction with the CGIL categories engaged in activities related to the safety of the city; with its plans for the dissemination of legality in schools, among young people and among the most vulnerable sections of society; the continuous involvement of the social partners and with the coordination of the forces in the field and with projects that constantly follow decorum and live ability to make accessible and open places of aggregation and culture, public and private spaces.

 

The Conference Organization is moving in the path of the Fourth Congress of the CGIL SILP who had outlined a horizon defined and attainable for a reorganization of the Fund based on the unification of the police force in general jurisdiction, the centrality of the citizen, the efficiency of services, the elimination of duplication, streamlining of the hierarchical levels of coordination, the change of assumptions, more system resources. The modernization, for Silp CGIL also involves the review of leases, favoring state-owned real estate or better yet confiscated from the crime and the exploitation of labor, its quality and the different characteristics of the sector, implementing a full contract system of first and second level.

 

Graziano has referred to the social and territorial bargaining able to expand and combine the protection of citizens’ rights with those of work. Is about to open the discussion on the Financial Statements of Commons, on this topic one of the proposals that emerged was to ask the Mayor of Rimini in safety clothing a meeting to discuss the age-old problem of the headquarters of the Police. More generally, even the Silp CGIL intends to make its contribution as part of collective action aimed at building a growing network and articulated able to dialogue with the whole of civil society, workers and employees, pensioners and pensioners and even more with the young people.