Enhanced Visibility Guidelines – YOUR HELP NEEDED

Many commercial laundry operators offer high-visibility garments to clients that are required to wear these garments by law due to the nature of their jobs.  The requirements for high-visibility garments are laid out by several standards as to what is required to actually be a high-visibility garment.

 

The use of high-visibility clothing can be cost-prohibitive, which is why high-visibility clothing often isn’t used in settings where it would be beneficial, but not required. This includes workplaces such as indoor manufacturing, garbage dumps, or other scenarios involving large machinery and workers. Enhanced visibility is designed to give employees additional distinguishability that may not be required by law, but would nonetheless enhance workplace safety. Such places of employment include mining, factory floors or residential streets.

 

TRSA, with the input of the Enhanced Visibility Task Force, has developed a set of draft enhanced-visibility industry guidelines to help companies provide enhanced-visibility uniform clothing for places where high visibility isn’t mandatory, but would be beneficial. These enhanced-visibility industry guidelines will provide performance requirements for conspicuous materials for use in enhanced-visibility items and will specify the minimum amounts of materials, colors and placement of materials for garments used to enhance the visibility and the safety of employees.