Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:43 pm  

My mate followed the advice of the old 1960s advert and wore "something white at night"

He got run over by a snow plough

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:51 pm  

You probably wouldn't want to wear a Hi-Viz vest when operating harvesting machinery in a rapeseed field though.

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:00 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

You probably wouldn't want to wear a Hi-Viz vest when operating harvesting machinery in a rapeseed field though.

au contraire

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:26 am  

I used to work in a factory where all the fork lift drivers had to wear a viz. None of the pedestrian traffic, just those sitting on five ton, bright orange machines with a rotating flashing light on the top.
No one could work it out.

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:22 am  

I can't believe you lot pack all that safety equipment in the car but not a shovel, surely it is standard kit for the winter?

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:24 am  

Cronus wrote:

Driving instructors need to get in & out regularly to move from the passenger seat to the driver's seat and vice versa. I'd imagine some regulation involving working on a public highway comes into effect?

Just guessing, like.

I am a driving instructor and there is no regulation that we have to wear any thing.

As someone else has pointed out driving examiners have to wear them. But only if they do not have a car park at the test centre. If they set of on a public road they are supposed to wear one.

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:28 am  

guess who wrote:

I am a driving instructor and there is no regulation that we have to wear any thing...

That's disgusting.
Not even when the learner is of the opposite sex?

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:41 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

That's disgusting.
Not even when the learner is of the opposite sex?

I did wonder how long it would take

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:45 am  

guess who wrote:

I did wonder how long it would take

You set 'em up ....

Re: Have you all got a hi-vis vest? : Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:49 am  

Hutchie wrote:

Walking about in dimly lit parking areas, in fact any sort of environment where pedestrians and vehicles come into contact or have to cross paths, say like a bus depot for instance

I don't know what bus drivers and conductors did in the days before Hi-Viz was invented, it must have been like a scene from a slaughterhouse in Headingley bus depot every day.