Hi Vis Vest Yellow vs Orange: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Safest High‑Visibility Colour for Your Workplace When a traffic‑control crew rolled onto a busy motorway wearing orange‑red hi‑vis vests, the roadside‑work class (R) was easily missed by drivers travelling at 100 km/h. Within minutes a semi‑trailer clipped the temporary barrier, causing a near‑miss that […]
Yellow vs. Orange Hi‑Vis Vests: Which Colour Keeps You Safer and More Visible on the Job? The morning shift on a Melbourne road‑work site started with a near‑miss that could have turned nasty. A traffic controller in a faded orange vest stepped onto the carriageway just as a delivery truck entered the lane. The driver […]
Last month, a civil works supervisor in western Sydney copped a $12,750 fine from SafeWork NSW after three of his labourers were spotted working night shift on a Parramatta road project wearing imported Class D vests with no reflective tape. The kicker? He’d bought the vests cheap from an overseas marketplace, thinking ‘hi-vis is hi-vis’. […]