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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.

Everyone marches with the Pedibus, the health walk turns pink

A walk of wellness, against breast cancer. With this spirit, the first edition of Pied bus’s Pink Walk will take place tomorrow – Tuesday, October 23 – in Perugia. The initiative falls within the month of breast cancer prevention and will start tomorrow at 20. 45 from piazza.

Also foreseen a flash mob in pink for the streets of the historic center of Perugia. Those who want, in fact, can wear a pink garment in addition to the high visibility vest to wear along the way. “We would like to color the streets, with the high visibility safety vest, to make the city aware of the issue of prevention – explains Herminie Battista, Coordinator of health promotion network Umbria 1 -. To enliven the evening there will be a special Walking leader, Flavia, who will surprise us with her creativity. We will be joined by friends of the Popular Dances Perugia, Dance Movement Therapy, which will involve us in dances in a circle “.

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.

Clean roads, the volunteers on the street against the incivility

With safety vests and all the collection tools that have long symbolized their precious activity, the volunteers went on Sunday 11 December, at the plots next to the highway 233, to a new and intense hunting session for abandoned waste.

It is the second time in a few days that the volunteers reach the connecting area between Induno Olona and Ganna. Last Saturday’s intervention, in fact, in addition to making the appearance of a highly traveled transit area more dignified and restoring the normal conditions of the spaces close to the woods, was also served to the members of the Clean Roads team as an inspection, to quantify the work to be done before changing destination.

An inspection that must have followed the assessment of a scenario that is certainly not very reassuring, given the speed with which the team returned to the site, a week away. Adriano Maranon, Erdmann Macron and other six collecting companions, including two volunteers at the first exit, immediately in tune with the spirit of the group, have collected a lot of about fifty bags and other materials left on the ground without regard. All replaced by signs placed well in sight for the ill-intentioned, with the writing black on white “do not throw waste in the street”.

Several drivers who traveled along the SS233 noticed the bibs and recognized the willing operators. They are the same that subsequently joined the praises of all users that on Facebook never fail to thank Clean roads for every work done for free in favor of the territory and the collective heritage.

Lighting for cyclists and e-scooters vital

Road traffic regulations also apply to electric scooters. A violation can be expensive.

The dark season means poor visibility and increased risk of accidents for all road users. In November and December 2017, around 32 percent of traffic accidents involving personal injury occurred during the dark hours, the highest level during the year.

Cyclists, in particular, are required: damp foliage and wet, smooth tram rails increase the risk of falling, fog and twilight obscure the view. “Cyclists should definitely pay attention to function lighting and good visibility,” says ÖAMTC lawyer Guthrie.

In the same way, he sees the handlebars of e-scooters. The same rules apply to the battery-powered scooters as to cyclists, because if they do not exceed a maximum output of 600 watts and a maximum speed of 25km / h, they are considered e-bikes.

Check lighting regularly – “lack of light” costs up to 726 euros

According to the regulation, bicycles must have a white reflector at the front and a red reflector at the back. The reflectors must be mounted individually or integrated into the headlamp. On the pedals, front and rear reflectors are a must.

“Also prescribed are yellow or white cat eyes or reflector sticks on the wheels,” says the ÖAMTC lawyer. “Alternatively, tires with reflective borders are possible.” For electric scooters, the lighting regulations also apply according to their design. The expert recommends: “The condition and optimal function of the lighting should be checked regularly.”

“In principle, drivers of bicycles and e-bikes, including e-scooters, are not obliged to use headlights or red taillights in daylight and good visibility – but in the case of obstruction and darkness,” says lawyer Guthrie.

“Anyone who does not abide by the rules of risks not only the safety of themselves and others but for poorly equipped and unlit bicycles can be up to a penalty of 726 € imposed.” If you cause an accident with the personal injury because of bad or missing lighting, you also have to reckon with claims for damages and a judicial criminal procedure.

Helmet and reflectors must-haves for handlebars

Rules for the equipment of the driver itself does not exist. “Although a helmet is not mandatory for adults in Austria, it protects against serious head injuries in the event of an accident and should be part of the basic equipment – even more so in the dark season,” advises the ÖAMTC expert.

If a cyclist “falls under race conditions” without a helmet to fall and suffers skull injuries, he can even make a contributory negligence.

To be even more visible, it is essential to attach reflective materials to clothing or wear a safety vest. “Every supplemental aid, be it through headlamps or LED lights, makes sense, but it’s important to remember that this does not dazzle oncoming traffic,” says the expert.

Reflective tapes for clothing and safety vests, for example, can be found at all Mobility Club bases – there are many other “little helpers” for more visibility, such as armband and leg bandages and reflective pendants.

The order of revolt

“Yellow vests” “EN ISO 20471” are the name of the safety vest worldwide. In France, she now inherits the revolutionary symbolism.

It was supposed to unite France’s revolutionaries. The Cap of Jacob was once a great idea, it was the hallmark of the Robespierre followers, the sans-culottes, the fighting workers and the petty bourgeoisie. The Jacobean cap stood for freedom, brotherhood, but above all for the equality of the revolutionaries. At the same time, the so-called Phrygian cap was a great symbolic misunderstanding: the barricade fighters put the headgear on their angry head in the historical mistaken belief that it was already carried by freed slaves in antiquity. This is not true, because they had the felt cut on the vertex. The “Phrygian cap” was actually a tanned bull scrotum that was supposed to give the antique bear the power of a bull.

Revolutionary mood reigns in France these days. The fashion, however, has changed. At present, the “yellow vests” are fighting on the Champs-Élysées and throughout the Republic against the increase in petrol taxes and the state, as Emmanuel Macron imagines. Cheap vests as a symbol of rebellion against the tightened suit policy of Macron’s “En Marche” movement. Not a blue-white-red democracy movement, but a neon-glowing exclamation point that should unite communists and nationalists with the French rogue.

After all, the brief history of the warning vest tells pretty much the opposite of disobedience, revolution, and insurrection. It was invented to protect, not to cause chaos. It was intended to secure airport staff, truck drivers, hunters, and construction workers with increased visibility. In addition, folders of all kinds are equipped with the “yellow vest” to organize the public mess with a hard hand. At some point, the safety vest was then the accessory of dutiful helicopter parents: no kindergarten trip without apple slices and big yellow jackets. The strange species of radical cyclists wear safety vests so naturally over the Jack jacket as the plastic-helmet-protected bicycle helmet on their head and the neon yellow trouser-straps around the shins. There’s nothing more spiteful than safety vests – at most garden gnomes (who – why actually? – get along largely without yellow vests).

It was the English who eventually developed safety vests for chickens (in models neon yellow, pink and blue) and successfully exported them. The EU understood less fun. It has bureaucratically buttoned and unified the “yellow vest”: as part of the harmonization of Member States’ legislation on personal protective equipment, a standard for safety vests has been introduced, which is entitled EN ISO 20471. Since then, it has been necessary to carry “warning reflective clothing” in cars, which comply with implementation instructions of DGUV regulation 70, which refers to DIN EN 471 and certain requirements of the latter. ” Ironically, this globally standardized garment should now stand for a new French Revolution? Burning cars instead of protection for drivers? Disarray and uprising instead of clothes for folders? Coup d’état in mantle an EU standard? The state-obligatory clothes for the fight for freedom? Is this the second time in the history of France that this is a fashionable error of the revolutionaries? Are the “yellow vest” the Phrygian scrotums of our time? And is it in France really a neon revolution according to DIN standard?

It’s not that easy. Probably no other garment is present in as many households as the safety vest. It belongs in every car like the toilet paper on a toilet. The safety vest is the accessory that unites a people in truth. An affront to Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Paul Gautier and Karl Lagerfeld, the latter would probably claim that anyone wearing a warning vest, has long lost control of his life. The safety vest with reflective tape is as practical-rational as the guillotine and the cheapest and most socially acceptable uniform (the four-pack is available from 10.99 Euros). It symbolizes the history of the working class and at the same time embodies the people subjugated in the name of security. And most importantly: The common safety vest screams continuously, day and night, in neon-shrill clarity: “Look at me! Do not forget me!”

Incidentally, in her old paintings, the revolutionary icon of France, the Marianne, proudly wears a Jacobean cap as she storms over burning barricades. The German Michel, on the other hand, was quickly given a similar, but completely differently connoted head covering by the French: with a sleepyhead. As a symbol of having lost the revolution. While the Jacobean cap has brought it into the democratic fashion of the United States, the sleepyhead still adorns mainly the garden gnomes in German front gardens.

Ultimately, little has changed in Europe since the first French Revolution. While the Parisians with the warning vest storm the streets, the Germans drive model EN ISO 20471 dutifully in the trunk around. And if they bring it out, then to be visible in the winter darkness.

So first graders master the way to school

They are barely larger than the knapsack they carry on their backs. And they are excited, a whole new period of life begins. And for some, the path may not even be 100 percent. Around 1,200 girls and boys from the Höxter district have their very first day of school on Thursday, 30 August. At the latest from the following Friday, the little ones will go on the daily way to school. So that the steppes arrive safely, city, police and traffic watch gives important tips.

On foot

Most children are at school. The youngsters did not only gain experience. “Movement and fresh air before the class start also increase the ability to concentrate,” informs the Höxter district police, but because they perceive their surroundings differently from adults, they are in traffic especially at risk.

Go the way up to ten times

The Verkehrswacht advises parents to walk the path five to ten times with their offspring. Even at the beginning of school, the adults should still be there. “Because there is more traffic than at holiday time,” says Oliver. Parents should not forget their role model function, especially with regard to traffic lights and crossing aid and mobile phone use.

First of all, the Verkehrswacht recommends that the children do not go to school in groups. “Until they are safe on the way to school and recognize danger spots,” says Thane, because alone, the little ones usually learned better and were less distracting. “Thereafter, nothing speaks against dating,” says the traffic expert. Especially in the dark season, Thane advises “visible reflective clothing.” Safety vests, reflectors, satchels or flashing shoes which made with reflective fabrics, “There is even reflective yarn, especially creative parents can knit hats.”

Police are present on the first days

In the first few days, the police will be present on the school routes. “Help and education are in the foreground,” a statement said, and officials are also announcing increased speed measurements and checks on child seats, bus and bicycle traffic.

By bicycle

By bike only older children should go to school. “It’s not until they’re 14 that the ability to ride safely develops,” the police said, adding that the ability to focus on road traffic over a longer period of time does not train boys and girls until they are about eight years old.

By bus

Not every village in the district has its own elementary school. Many males will take the school bus. “Bus driving should also be practiced,” advises Oliver Thane, “Dangerous situations usually appear when getting in,” says the expert. Therefore, not only the way to the stop but also the getting in and out as well as sitting down should be trained. The school bus stops are on the right side of the street.

Parental taxis should use parking in the area

“On the way back, things can be different”, Thane points out, so children could suddenly run across the street behind the bus, so the police are also calling for stopping school buses to “pass by in two directions at walking pace”.

By car

The most convenient way to get to school is certainly the parental taxi. If you bring your own child to school by car, you should not chauffeur it all the way to the schoolyard. “Due to the pressure of the vehicle, there is a high-risk potential,” the city of Höxter informs on NW request, “Parking space in the area should be used for getting in and out.”

“Yellow vests” also in Belgium

Twelve wounded policemen, 74 arrested, a few burned cars – this is the balance of yesterday’s protests in Brussels against fuel price increases. The Belgian Minister of the Interior has announced that today the police will also be mobilized.

The protest of the so-called yellow safety vests has moved from France to Belgium. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Jan Jambon, in connection with the protests promised in France today, the police forces in the Belgian capital remain ready. The detention of aggressive people after yesterday’s protests will also be continued today.

“People who have been detained today will hear accusations. You can protest, but attacks on policemen are unacceptable. And those who have committed acts of aggression and have not been arrested yet cannot feel peaceful. We have recordings from cameras and testimonies.” said the VRT head of the Belgian Ministry of the Interior.

Yesterday’s demonstration went quietly to a certain point, but later the demonstrators began blocking tunnels in the city, overturning police cars and setting them on fire. Protesters threw stones at the Prime Minister’s seat and demanded his resignation.

Protests in Belgium moved to this country from France. On December 1, another wave of protests will be rolled over France on Saturday. It will be the third consecutive Saturday when demonstrations against fuel price increases will take place in the country.

Five thousand policemen were mobilized in Paris. Champs Elysees closed for vehicular traffic. Passers-by everywhere – bags and backpacks are checked. All this is to guard against a repeat of the riots of last week when shops and restaurants were demolished, cars were burned. The losses were estimated at one million Euros.

“Yellow vests” – because of the wearing of this type of reflective clothing with reflective tapes to ensure road safety is called protesters’ movement, they do not intend to put up a gun, they will demonstrate against fuel rises, more than six cents per liter will be fueled by diesel oil, according to President Emmanuel Macron be an element of the fight for environmental protection.

The attempt to talk with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe with “yellow vests” was considered a failure. Of the eight guests invited there were two, but the head of the government decided that the conversation was interesting, direct, respectful, useful and added that the door to his office at the Matignon Palace they are always open to “yellow vests.” Traders complain about losses, but as many as 85 percents of the population support the protesters.

Children demand respect

The dark season holds danger in the traffic. This is what the action “Can you see me?”

In the past year, a total of 205 children in road traffic crashed in the city triangle. The dark season holds particularly many dangers. And this is exactly what this week saw the joint “Can you see me?” Action by the police and road patrol yesterday in the southern district.

In the intersection motorists were torn from their morning routine: Several large clusters of yellow glowing figures had positioned themselves at various points of the intersection and beamed the drivers in the dark from afar. These drove automatically slower to curious to see what was happening so unusual on the intersection. It was the children of the local daycare center and St. Josef, as well as students of the GGS, who demanded the attention of the drivers equipped with reflective safety vests and lanterns, with rattles and shouts and a large banner. “Can you see me?” Read on the poster.

One or the other motorist, who had been on the move, was stopped, enlightened and admonished by the policemen who accompanied the action. Drivers should know that children are unpredictable on the road, that pedestrians are less well off in the dark months, and reducing the speed protects the weakest road users, in this case, children as pedestrians, traffic police officer Michael summed up the key messages for motorists.

On the other hand, the children were taught that they had to make themselves visible to the rest of the road users, such as reflective safety vests, reflective materials on shoes, clothing, and backpacks which made of reflective fabric or just with the help of newly purchased lanterns, which were used for the first time, as Otto Mahler, chairman of the Traffic Watch told. Since 2015, the non-profit organization regularly distributes safety vests in day-care centers. Over the past three years, more than 1000 pieces have come together. Now 700 lanterns with the traffic signs “Tempo 30” have been added, which were distributed in advance to 40 Remscheid daycare centers. “The lanterns were financed by the Verkehrswacht Remscheid,” said Mahler. Developed by the Remscheid company Hamper and manufactured by the company from Wuppertal they should provide more security, at least make attentive and sensitize. “It is another building block in the task to increase the visibility of the children,” said Mahler.

In the St. Josef daycare center, the lanterns were not only used by the preschool children, who were standing on a green strip at the crossroads. “We have also used the lanterns on our Martin train to secure the movement and to make the parents aware of it,” said Kita director Stephanie Radix.

After all, even parents who drive their children to school themselves can sometimes become a source of danger on the morning way to school.

Safety vests for the first graders

“Just make sure” is the motto of the ADAC safety campaign for the first graders. This year, the ADAC Foundation “Gelber Engel” distributed 760,000 of the popular yellow safety vests nationwide to new schoolchildren.

With the coming dark season, especially the young road users are overlooked. Reflective tapes and signal colors increase the visibility, because a child in dark clothes recognizes a motorist only from 25 meters away, with the ADAC safety vest already from 140 meters.

A few days ago, the annual transfer of the safety vests to the children of the new first classes took place at the school. As usual, the vests were handed over by Mr. Floss from the Reagan police. Also present were Rector Jana and the teachers of the first classes.

Mr. Floss greeted the 94 children and made them realize how important wearing this vest in the dark season. All students were enthusiastic about this meaningful gift and promised to always wear the vest with reflective material on the way to school and immediately put it on for a joint photo.