#HIGH VISIBILITY CLOTHING DRIVERS#
Reflective materials can help drivers to see you three seconds sooner at night – which could save your life.The light from a drivers’ headlights will go straight back to the driver who will see the reflective materials REALLY well. They are called ‘retro-reflective’ because they are designed to bounce most of the light back to its source instead of scattering it. However, special reflective materials work much better.Light can also be reflected by white or pale objects such as a newspaper or white carrier bag these will reflect light but scatter it in all directions so a driver will see some brightness.To work properly it needs to be dark and there must be a light source such as car headlights.So if you’ve got a blue school uniform it’s a good idea to also wear or carry something fluorescent to make yourself seen.ĭid you know… reflective materials work at night by bouncing back the light from a source. The colour blue is not so effective for fluorescent clothing because of its wavelength it is not good at emitting light and the human eye is not so good at seeing blue generally.Horse-riders often wear pink as it is a colour not found often in nature and so shows up well against autumn leaves.What colour were your armbands when you learnt to swim? Lifeboat crews have orange lifejackets this colour shows up best against blue and grey water.You’ve probably seen police officers, postal workers, lorry drivers, builders and refuse collectors wearing these jackets. In industry, yellow and orange fluorescent clothing is often worn under health and safety laws (for quality standard EN20471).(These colours are listed on the EN1150 quality standard.) Lots of colours can be fluorescent and used for high vis clothing and bags, not just yellow but red, pink, green and orange too.
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