Re: Safety Vests & Level Crossings

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "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.
>

Yes we do!

Ted