Safety Knowledge

What you wear when out walking in the streets may be more important than you think. It’s important to not blend with your environment so that it’s easier for the drivers to see you.  During the day, try to avoid neutral colors that blend into the pavement, and go for brighter colors that it easy for a driver to see. It’s a too way street, you want to be seen in traffic and the driver wants to see you!

 At night time, dark colors are very difficult for a driver to see, light colors reflect more light and can be seen from a greater distance than dark colors. If the driver is driving very slow, a choosing to wear a white t-shirt over a black one might actually save your life!

Be Safe – Be Seen!

Here are some pertinent facts from independent sources:

“Chances of being struck and killed as a pedestrian increase 1100% after dark” – National Safety Council.

“Poor visibility of pedestrians is a major contributing cause of higher nighttimes accident rates” – U.S. Public Health Service.

“In a survey of safety specialists, reflectorization countermeasures were identified as having the highest overall rating as a means for reducing school children accidents during darkness” – U.S. Department of Transportation.

“A person dressed completely in black wearing a thumb sized reflector is detected at longer distances than a person dressed completely in white”
– Federal Highway Administration.

“8 out of 10 drivers who struck people at night didn’t see them. 90% of motorists who hit people at night are not ticketed for any traffic violations”
– Indiana State Police Reports.

Reflective Accessories

Pedestrian Reflectors are excellent devices for traffic safety, should be used by School children walking from home to school during the dark, late night workers, night walkers/joggers, bikers, motorcyclers and all pedestrians who are exposed to traffic. Wearing a reflector increases the drivers distance to see you with over 9 times! A driver travelling at 60 mph needs over 260 feet to stop. They list the following colours and visibility distances: BLACK/BLUE – 55 feet; RED – 80 feet; YELLOW -120 feet; WHITE – 180 feet; REFLECTORIZED – 500 feet OR MORE.

 
At this picture, you can’t even see the people because it is so dark, but you can see the reflectors and identify that there is movement there and as a driver you can avoid hitting the people walking along the street. As a pedestrian you have to be aware that just because you can see the car, does not mean that the driver can see you. It is your responsibility to make yourself visible in traffic.
(Remember to check for the CE EN 13356 stamp of approval to make sure your reflector is of good quality and does the job it is intended to do.)

Safetyware

Abards or vest/waistcoats Stavellan vest are made from the best reflective materials. The polyester is the textile fabric used for our vests and other reflective products, fabric is available in following colours: Fluor yellow and flour orange. Our flour yellow and flour orange is tested and certified in accordance with EN471-02. Vests are CE certified according to the standard EN 471-02 or EN1150 for non-professional use.

Glodian Tape is a product of High Technology for retro-reflection. Glodian performs well in night time with its retro-reflectivity as well as day time with its conspicuous color for road safety. This product is remarkably durable to maintain the quality and reflective performance. And the materials for Glodian are non-toxic proved by complying EN71 Part3. The Glodian tape is manufactured with Super-Sonic to preserve more reflecting area than other products. With the flexibility, various colors & sizes of Glodian you can have lots of choices in making your Safety Vest and other products.
As you know Microprism type reflective tapes have been much more expensive than glassbead type ones. Sometimes you may hesitate to use microprism type reflective tape because of its expensive price. But now there no need to worry about it. You can use our fully qualified GLODIAN™ series at very reasonable prices.

Works When Wet
The use of both microprismatic and glassbead reflective tapes, but seriously recommends microprismatic reflective tapes to our customers.
Numerous tests provide proof that prismatic technology is superior in terms of brightness to open lens glass bead particularly in wet weather. Whilst both prismatic and glass bead exceed all the EN471, the European Standard for High Visibility garments, the EN471 standard, does allow for a drop in brightness performance of 70% in rainfall, but the risk of an accidents does not drop by 70% in rainfall.

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