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Warm and safe with Trevor’s safety jacket

For navigation within 2 miles of a shelter, a life jacket of 50 nektons is sufficient for regulation. Trevor launches, for this purpose, the Izeber50 flotation jacket, which offers both thermal insulation and buoyancy equivalent to a vest of 50 Newton (Certified according to ISO 12402-05). It does not replace a lifejacket for upper navigation categories (coastal, mid-shore and offshore). The floatation jacket reduces the risk of drowning, but does not guarantee rescue, as the user must swim and keep his head out of the water, on his own. It can be used during water activities, by people who can swim and in sheltered waters or in calm seas, with help nearby. The Izeber50 jacket is ideal for jet-skiing, canoeing, paddle boarding, windsurfing or light sailing, less than 2 miles from a shelter.

 

The buoyancy of the safety vest is achieved through closed-cell polyethylene slides containing air and micro beads. This flexible and lightweight component guarantees comfort and freedom of movement during maneuvers. Reversible, the neon orange side with integrated reflection strips on the shoulders makes it easy to see. Trevor’s Izeber50 jacket protects against wind and cold while remaining free of movement, without feeling like a buoyancy aid. On the other hand, it is water repellent and allows the fabric to stay light, breathable and warm. On both sides, two zip pockets are useful when the vest is used as a jacket, on the color side. To prevent the jacket from rising when you’re in the water, a subcutaneous strap goes between the legs to hook on each side of the vest, in a loop.

 

Although the Trevor Izeber50 safety jacket is still a bit imposing, it can be used both on land and at sea. Wearing it on the color side, it can be used as a sleeveless jacket to keep you warm while being stylish.

 

 

 

 

 

Well-equipped vehicle and safety vest protected employees

Among the equipment required by the Act is the fluorescent safety vest that can be seen by other motorists, day or night, in case of emergency stop on the roadway or its surroundings. This vest must be CE approved and placed in a location easily accessible by the driver in the vehicle.

 

Another obligation: to have a warning triangle. As a reminder, it must be placed at least 30 meters from the vehicle or obstacle to report. In case of absence of the vest or the triangle, the employee of the company is liable to a fine of up to 750 €.

The case of the ethyl test is slightly different: chemical or electronic and imperatively standard NF *, it is also mandatory…. Except that the non-respect of this obligation is not sanctioned. After a period of shortage in the promulgation of the law, it is now possible to find pharmacy, tobacco shop, Total service stations including and insurance companies.

 

Anything that can contribute to employee safety is paramount. That is why it is strongly recommended to equip each company vehicle with a spare wheel and the reflective equipment to install it. In case of absence of spare wheel, the puncture-resistant bomb can be very useful. Beyond a precautionary principle, note that in case of control, the bad condition of the tires can be sanctioned by a fine of 750 € maximum doubled of immobilization of the vehicle.

 

The same sanction is applied, with a fine of “only” 450 €, in case of deficient or out of order fires. In the register of this small equipment that can render great service figure the lamp, preferably dynamo to prevent battery failure. To find your keys fallen on the ground at night or to guide you in the dark, it is always advisable.

 

Also include small wipes to wipe your windshield from the inside if your vision is disrupted, or special “plastic wipes” to maintain dashboards and door interiors. If employees have to transport customers, as much as having a clean vehicle … and then you always feel better in a well-maintained car.

 

More rarely mentioned but so important in case of a serious accident to carry first aid: the pharmacy kit, the survival blanket, the hammer glass breaker, the belt cutter and the fire extinguisher. For victim drivers and their passengers, or to help another vehicle, this safety equipment can be simply vital. Note that this equipment is on sale in the shops of the vast network of Total gas stations in France and abroad.

Should Safety jacket be made obligatory?

It’s a vital choice! The survival time at sea can be multiplied by ten thanks to the safety vest. Should we then make it mandatory in the manner of the car seat belt and the two-wheeled helmet?

 

Nearly 100% of the people killed by a lifejacket this summer along the French coastline have been saved. If the topic is regularly discussed within ministries, the project to make the wearing of this safety equipment mandatory is postponed from year to year. In 20 years, wearing lifejackets for boaters or professional buoyancy clothing has more than doubled. Awareness campaigns, sensitized generation, improved ergonomics, equipment prices down. The number of equipped users has steadily increased. While mentalities have largely evolved on the subject, there still remain brakes and recalcitrant. Especially on sunny days or festive outings, where group dynamics tend to dissolve good habits. Overall, the maritime authorities observe during their regular checks at sea more than half of boaters equipped and relatively little total absence of safety elements on board. But the right vest is the one you wear on your back, not the one who sleeps in the inaccessible trunk!

 

Is it necessary to make its use obligatory? Some boaters who took the fold do not see any problem. “The seatbelt has been successful in bringing down the number of people killed on the roads. Why would not it work at sea? The gendarmes are not behind any motorists either… “Another story from Admiral Frederic Maurice, delegate departmental SNSM in Finisher.” The wearing of the reflective vest is obviously a good thing (especially during trips in the appendix) but we must trust the marine sense of users,” tempers him. “The sea remains and must remain one of the last spaces of freedom on earth. Should we try to over-regulate it? France does not have the means to enforce this obligation at sea. So let users enjoy the sea as they see fit! “.

 

On the other hand, no ambiguity for the volunteers of the SNSM perfectly equipped with each of their interventions. It is still among practitioners sailing that the vest is sometimes desired. But for fishing, no visible evolution, always as many pro fishermen with nothing on their backs, out of habit, feeling safe not too far from the coast. However, the regulation is without appeal concerning the fishermen-sailors, since a decree of 2007. “The wearing of the integrated buoyant garment (adapted to each type of fishing) is obligatory during the fishing operations, for the work on the bridge of at night, in reduced visibility and bad weather, by way of an annex and if the commander so requires according to the circumstances “, remembers the regional fisheries committee.

 

On the side of state action at sea, the subject is in the hands of the mission of boating and water recreation. The three maritime prefectures of the French seaboard have already expressed their wish to make the wearing of lifejackets or buoyancy safety clothing compulsory. But the measure is hard to impose, even if the rescue operations remain free and the search time at sea of a yachtsman not equipped is incommensurable.

 

The yellow safety vest soon extended to 2 wheels

As of January 1, 2016, the retro-reflective or high-visibility safety vest becomes mandatory for motorcycles and scooters. The yellow vest becomes mandatory for motor vehicles with 2 and 3 wheels, and 4 non-body wheels, as well as for motorists. The government has finally decided after having made the wind vane on the subject for years!

 

In fact, the wearing of the retro reflective safety vest was to be compulsory at the beginning of 2013 by all drivers or passengers of a motorcycle, of a cylinder capacity greater than 125 cm3 or of a vehicle of category L5e with a power greater than 15 kW. Repealed from its entry into force in favor of a simple recommendation to wear a vest, the Inter-ministerial Committee on Road Safety has decided to go backwards.

 

A decree and a decree have just extended the requirements for the possession and wearing of a high-visibility reflective vest by the drivers of these vehicles (1). The wearing of the vest was previously applicable to motorists, and will be extended to the drivers of a motor vehicle with 2 or 3 wheels (motorcycle, scooter …), or a motor quadricycle not bodied (for example a quad ) from 1 January 2016 as soon as they have to leave the broken down vehicle. They will have to dispose of them or storage of their vehicle (net, trunk …) and wear it when they get off their vehicle after an emergency stop, to improve their visibility, as for the motorists.

 

Compliance with this obligation, provided for in the Highway Code (2), may be controlled by the police and sanctioned in case:

Non-detention by a 1st class offense (11 Euros for the fixed fine),

Non-wearing of the high visibility vest following an emergency is stop by a violation of 4th class.

 

Sine educates motorists on the safety

Sine, the company specializing in the management of highways, launches a new campaign to educate drivers about the safety of its staff. Last month, a motorway worker without reflective vest died near Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais, after being hit by a car on the A1.

 

“You see me? Slow down!” a simple campaign slogan that calls for vigilance on highways. Sine’s agents are angry about the dangerous behavior of some motorists. “These are our customers, but it does not give them the right to roll over us. There is a lack of respect… We have only one life! When I come to work, it is to return I want to see my family again; I do not come to die at work, “says Sylvain CarMax, who works in the Janie center, near Satirize, in Murtha for 25 years.

 

Like most employees, he was shocked by the death of a colleague on March 14, near Arras. Those who call themselves men in yellow, because of their fluorescent safety vest, know that they are not immune to an accident. So they take precautions. For example, never work alone on the highway. “You have to be two to have four eyes, one of them is posing while the other is paying attention, so he is trying to warn his colleague, it takes four eyes on the highway, or even more, because is quite dangerous, “says Pascal Colza, team leader at Jenny’s center.

 

While discussing near the markup, which they have installed on a track, the employees of Sine perceive in the distance a dangerous behavior on the part of a motorist. “You see, the blue car approaching us, right in front of the truck, it doubled at the very last moment, when there was a forbidden sign to double 300 meters before. Braking the truck or the car and if the agents are behind, they are bumped, “pointed out Fabrics Jabber, head of the operating center of the Janie.

 

Increase in accidents involving motorway personnel

Non-compliance with signs, speed limits, mobile driving … The causes of accidents involving highway agents is numerous. According to Sine, there were 124 accidents affecting them all over France last year, compared to 101 in 2014. While the number of accidents has dropped a lot on motorways over the past ten years, those involving motorway staff are continuing to increase. A new awareness campaign is therefore more necessary than ever for the road safety. It started in early April and should continue until June.

The road test for road safety

 

“Driving a motorcycle at speed, everyone knows how to do it”, welcomes Michel, the “motorcycle gentleman” of the Pas-de-Calais prefecture. One way to make us understand that, although we are on the emblematic circuit of Croix-en-Terni, he is more interested in the ease of bikers on their gear. That’s how twenty-two bikers stumbled on a road test, answered forty questions about road safety and got on their bike for a test of maneuverability.

 

“Behind a heavy weight, there are fifty invisible positions for the driver.”

These amateur riders have all won their qualification at one of the seventeen events organized this year through the department with insurer MACIF. The winner of this Teresina final (the third of the name) won a ticket for the national trophy at the motorcycle police school. But beyond any competition, the goal of the prefecture is clear: continue to raise the awareness of the bikers, be more careful even they wear the reflective vest, particularly exposed on the roads in case of accident.

 

The participants were thus entitled to demonstrations of airbag safety vest, still too little used. They were also able to board a school truck on loan from Bray-la-Bossier Public Works High School. “Behind the heavy weight, there are fifty invisible positions for the driver, explains Michel Lagash. We want to make bikers aware of these blind spots. And the danger they represent in case of irregular overtaking.

 

The young elected ones invite you to “Dare the Yellow”

The Municipal Youth Council of Challis has chosen to focus on humor for its road safety campaign. And to encourage cyclists to wear a yellow safety vest, they made an unusual video!

 

The slogan could appear in a sketch of the Knights of File, but it is actually out of the imagination of the elected Municipal Council of Youth in the city of Challis. As part of their work on road safety, they decided to conduct a prevention campaign on the risks associated with bicycle travel. Starting from the observation that the wearing of the yellow vest is often considered “nerdy”, they decided to play the card of humor, by making a video around a message as simple as effective: the yellow vest, it is in fashion! After having built their screenplay, they shot their clip in one day, calling on Milo, a hollandaise teenager passionate about theater. And the result is, to say the least, striking…

 

The campaign also comes in the form of posters, on which we find sporting hollandaise: the motocross rider Thierry Bathes, the basketball player Antoine Audit, or the professional cyclist Arnold Jenison who has always dreamed of wearing … the yellow jersey!

“Well seen together” on Bleu Pays

Every year, for cyclists and pedestrians, the change in the winter time is synonymous with an increase in accidents related to the decrease in brightness, especially without any reflective accessories. The France Bleu network launches the operation “Bien vu ensemble”.

 

The operation “Well seen together” is to find this Friday, October 27 from 9am in “Life in Blue” with the general agents of insurance. All day with France Bleu Pays de Savoy, listeners will win their safety kits. This safety kit includes a yellow safety vest with reflective stripes, a yellow backpack with reflective stripes, a reflective bracelet and adhesives to stick on bicycle frames.

 

This operation takes as an anchor, the transition to winter time, synonymous with a significant increase in the number of victims of traffic accidents and particularly among the most vulnerable, pedestrians and cyclists.

 

Indeed, the night falling an hour earlier, pedestrians and cyclists are less visible because of this lack of brightness without reflective vest.

 

To work on the bike with wear safety vest

“I’m not an exotic,” Erich defends war. And in fact, whoever drives the bike to work today, no longer has to ask the question: Does not the car have a car? The teacher has already saddled almost 20 years ago.

 

Since this time, the 60-year-old has been riding a bicycle between his home and his workplace with wear a reflective vest. 25 kilometers, 25 kilometers, every school day, both summer and winter. Departure time in the morning: 6:15 am “In the winter it is not so tingling,” war warns, which changes in snow then on a mountain bike with spikes. And conceded, at 20 degrees minus, the health prevails at war and the wheel remains in the garage. On the extreme days of extreme weather he travels to Steinem by car and from there by bike in the Benz Valley. Sometimes one must overcome oneself, says Krieg. But for this, unforgettable moments compensated. Sunsets, morning moods, cloud images: From the edge of the Steiner and from the heights, Krieg has already taken photos with his camera, which not only astonished the fellow circle. “I arrive with normal pulse and breath.” On the way back, the climb to Steinem awaits. “Eight to ten minutes” war overlaps the duration of the climb.

 

The fact that the pedagogue, who has been teaching for 32 years, does not have to struggle to get uphill, is due to the fact that war is not only driving his workplace by the wheel. The road bike is also his sports safety equipment and the route training for the really challenging mountain marathons. Several times war went the Totaled over four passes and 5500 heights, the Marathon dales Dolomites and several times also with start. A route leads across the Stevie Pass. “It is very challenging” is the official information of the organizer. Erich Krieg can swarm about how the “swings” of over 20 sweeps “upwards.” Pride, and he confesses, is war, that he has now driven 20 times the Alb extreme cycling marathon.

 

War has now come a little shorter; the number of kilometers traveled by bicycle has fallen from 16,000 to 12,000 kilometers per year. The enthusiasm for cycling, the intensive contact with nature, and the close-up experience of all seasons, have not let up. Cycling was not the first choice. It was football. When, in 1985, a doctor drew a sideline, because the knee had suffered damage, his recommendation for alternative sports went on swimming or cycling. War chose the wheel.

 

Ten years later, the club of cycling friends Bartholomew, whose chairman he is to this day, has raised the war. The 14 founding members have now become 140. “Cycling is booming.” Once upon a time, war on the drive to school was started by a dog in the mist. Nothing happens. Drivers and animals were equally surprised. In order to be more visible, war is only possible with an alert yellow safety vest and, of course, with a helmet. “If someone goes without, I could get sick.” The warriors also know that the war is sustained by riding helmets, if they want to swing on the wheel after class.

 

“I am already an outdoor person” admits war. In winter, you can go cross-country skiing, and the cross-country ski runs can be reached by bike. The great effect of sport is indisputable to war. For 30 years he had not missed a day at school. And there was never a delay with the bike. The woman is riding along, “where it is beautiful,” war describes the goals for family excursions. Whether the fun of the grandchildren Ida and Henri When war finds three to four more wheel tracks in the morning on the way t in the snow, he knows: “I am in good company.”

Police are urgently seeking school helpers with safety vest

As a rule, young school pupils and adult school walkers are responsible for ensuring school safety. This service can still be maintained, because not enough voluntary helpers report. In the Anton, police superintendent Günter Thales now appealed to the parents of the first years to get involved.

 

“All parents want their children to come to school, but time does not come”, headmistress Lamer brings the problem to the point. In the autumn, 70 children are trained in the Anton. Many of the girls and boys go to school every day, some of them having to cross the main road or other busy streets. There are particularly vulnerable places where schoolchildren are ready to help children safely cross the street. At the moment, Günter, with the Police together with Michaela Rosenthal, responsible for the school safety, can now employ only 21 adult helpers alongside the student guides. “This is the minimum,” says Taller.

 

The helpers ensure a transition and the transition in the middle of the city. Especially there in the morning always very many students on the road, at the same time also the traffic is the densest, because a lot of school buses pass the place. In the absence of enough adult helpers, Thales Am also has to use student solders. This is not optimal. Therefore, the police officer hopes that today, on the day of the registration of the future first years, he will find a few new voluntary school helpers. It is important that the young parents themselves behave as exemplary on the road. “If the parents do not make it clear, the children cannot really learn it.” Above all a situation is a thorn in his eye: “Often parents keep their car in front of the school directly in the absolute ban, but this is forbidden.” Because the children are to hurry, dangerous situations quickly come.

 

However, the goal is to ensure that the children are not driven, but run to school. Thus he is on the topic of school path helpers. He appealed to the parents in the Aula to volunteer for this service. “The half an hour a week early between 7.30 and 8 o’clock,” he says, the more helpers are involved, the less often the mission is, the helper is equipped with a safety vest and a trowel, as well as the municipal liability insurance, and accident insurance, if anything happens, Thales continues.

 

The 56-year-old police officer is supported by Catharina Schulz. “It is very important to me,” says the mother of two children, who has been active as a school chaplain for years, hoping that new help will be found, but she will continue to do so even though her youngest son leaves the primary school. But some of the other long-term school helpers would gladly give the honorary office again, she knows.

 

Sabine Popp is today with her son Maximilian in the elementary school, which he will visit from September. “The school helpers are a great thing,” she says, and the young mother, the teacher, would report to herself, “but only if it is compatible with my duty schedule,” she said. For many parents, professional activity seems to be the problem of why they do not commit themselves voluntarily. Also Holder Kessler, father of Nina, says: “This is, of course, a good thing, but I cannot help because I work from five o’clock in the morning.” Nevertheless, Günter Thales does not give up the hope: he publishes lists in the Aula in which helpers can register. Six volunteers in reflective vest are taking part after the infusion, and five want to consider the mission. With this result, the police superintendent is quite satisfied.