Re: Safety Vests & Level Crossings

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

"Mark Bau" <markbau@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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| tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au wrote on 6/8/01 2:20 AM:
| > "Mark Bau" <markbau@earthlink.net> wrote in message

| > | 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.
| >
| >
| What the hell are you talking about? If I'm running a train and because
| someone is wearing a safety vest I see him a second earlier than I would
| otherwise and can get on the horn and alert him of my presence a little
| earlier I just may save a life.

I was thinking along the lines of the Driver reacting, not the moron.


| If visibility doesn't matter why do we have our headlights on even during
the day?

We don't.