Re: Safety Vests & Level Crossings

[Neil Crellin <pncrellin@iprimus.com.au>]

Anyway, wearing a safety vest lets you get some photo's in locations that some
railway supervisors would not approve of (not that I'm advocating trespassing
of course).

Neil Crellin

Mark Bau wrote:

> 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