Fall Fashion Is Highly Visible Under New Work-Zone Rule
Imagine all the parkas, pullovers and polo shirts in this season’s L.L. Bean catalog in neon green or orange, and you have what many jobsites will look like when a federal regulation hits later this month. Safety suppliers are redesigning high-visibility clothes to be functional as well as (dare we say?) fashionable.
Stipulated in the 2005 highway bill and set for implementation on Nov. 24, a federal rule will require any worker in the right of way of a federal-aid highway, day or night, to wear high-visibility garments with Class 2 or Class 3 labels. Clothes must be certified to meet International Safety Equipment Association standard ISEA 107-2004. Class types vary in their amount of fluorescent fabric and reflective tape.