Re: Safety Vests & Level Crossings

[Mark Bau <markbau@earthlink.net>]

For those that sit in an office all day it is easy to poo poo safety vests
but as someone who has worked around heavy machinery practically all of my
working life I know they are a useful safety item.

Their main function is for an operator of a machine that he might see
someone in a dangerous position a split second earlier than someone dressed
in clothes that blend into the background. Sometimes seeing a bright vest
out of the corner of your eye a second than that person would otherwise be
seen can mean the difference between injury or death and nothing happening.

Mark