Accessories for Safety Vest: 12 Game‑Changing Add‑Ons to Boost Visibility, Comfort & Protection On a busy construction site in Sydney last winter, a traffic‑control officer was sent packing after a routine inspection. The vest he’d been wearing was the right Class R for roadwork, but the reflective tape had faded after just three months. The inspector flagged it, […]
Top 15 Must‑Have Accessories for a Safety Vest: Boost Protection, Comfort & Visibility on the Job When a site foreman walked past a crew on a packed‑down road‑works stretch, he noticed three of the workers were still wearing their old‑school navy‑blue vests. Within minutes a delivery truck spun into the lane, the driver swearing as […]
Last month, a Newcastle construction crew was hit with a $12,000 SafeWork NSW penalty after a labourer tripped over a loose radio pouch attached to his hi-vis vest, breaking his wrist. The pouch wasn’t secured to the vest’s approved mounting points, the vest itself was Class D when he should have been wearing Class D/N […]