Re: Safety Vests & Level Crossings

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Mark Bau" <markbau@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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| 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.

Not where trains are concerned.