Why Reflective Safety Clothing？
The function of the reflective vest is to form a very strong light reflection in the case of light exposure, which can stimulate the driver’s visual nerve, remind the pedestrians ahead, drive carefully, and avoid accidents.
Why reflective vest makes you safer?
Because the reflective fabric is one of the materials for the safety vest, and the reflective fabric has the reflective feature, can enhance your visibility on the road, keep you safer at poor light situation.
- Sewed Reflective Fabric
The main body of the reflective vest is made of mesh cloth or plain cloth, and the reflective material is a reflective lattice or high-brightness reflective cloth.
The reflective part of the reflective vest is made by the advanced process of focusing and post-processing by using the micro-diamond-shaped crystal lattice to produce refraction and high refractive index glass beads retro-reflective principle.
Reflective clothing can reflect the distant direct light back to the luminous place, shows good retroreflective optical performance no matter in day or night.
If night, you can feel the reflective feature strongly, because the reflective clothing can display the same high visibility as during the day.
If the safety clothing is made of this high-visibility reflective material, then the people who wear it can be easily spotted by night drivers regardless of whether the wearer is in a remote place or under the interference of light or scattered light.
- Retroreflective optical performance
Reflective fabric is made of base cloth, glue, and thousands of high-refractive glass beads, which can reflect the light on the people who wear reflective clothing or who wear common clothing with reflective fabric tape decoration, the reflected lighting from the reflective clothing will return to the original light.
- Fully Directive Design
The safety vest is sewed with several reflective tapes for safety purposes. According to the requirements of work clothing, the structure of the safety vest is different, such as below:
Sanitation worker clothes and construction always work in daylight, and their safety work clothing design as simple clothing with 2 reflective stripes, if fireman clothing, this is always designed as safety clothing top and safety clothing pants with the more reflective area.
The principle of reflective fabric
Reflective materials are also called retroreflective materials.
The reflective cloth is an exposed reflective material, which is composed of the base cloth, glue, and thousands of high-refractive glass beads. The glass beads are located on the top surface of the reflective fabric and are in direct contact with the air.
Reflective fabrics can be roughly divided into ordinary reflective fabrics, high-bright reflective fabrics and bright silver reflective fabrics according to different brightness, color and production processes.
- Ordinary reflective fabrics
Ordinary reflective fabric is made of base cloth, glue, and thousands of high-refractive glass beads.
- High-bright reflective fabrics
- Bright silver reflective fabrics
High bright reflective fabric is made of glass beads, aluminized layer, composite adhesive layer, fabric base layer.
The aluminized glass beads can greatly improve the reflective brightness of the reflective cloth. Research has found that bright silver reflective cloth can be spotted by motor vehicle drivers 300 meters away.
In a word, reflective clothing has this reflective light feature, which can enhance the visibility of people who wear reflective clothing so that reflective clothing can promise the safety of people who wear it by warning others.
Applications of reflective vest
Thus, the reflective vest is widely applied for someone who works for traffic work, such as traffic patrol, civilian police, special police, environmental sanitation, outdoor exploration workers, and more.
Reflective vests are mainly suitable for the following workers:
- Police officers
- Road administrators
- Traffic directors
- Auxiliary police
- Sanitation worker
- Construction worker
- Road maintenance personnel
- Motor and bicycle drivers
- Workers in low light
- Traffic patrol
- Civilian police
- Special police
- Environmental sanitation
- Outdoor exploration workers,
- Other places where workers need to use light to warn.
Not only the above-mentioned personnel need to wear reflective vests, but even some night runners and night travelers can wear reflective vests, because the light is weak at night and people’s vision is blocked.
If the travelers can wear clothes with reflective stripes (reflective vests) , Reflective clothing, etc.), which can serve as a warning to other personnel and ensure their own safety
The standard of safety vest
China: GB 20653-2006
International: EN471, EN1150
The standard of safety vest mainly aims to the reflective area and reflective intensity.
According to the application, a safety vest has different strict requirements.
About XW Reflective
XW Reflective is a professional reflective fabric manufacturer in China, and we also provide reflective safety vests for our customers. We provide raw reflective material factory and final safety vest products too, so XW Reflective is superior to other safety clothing suppliers, can provide you best service and nice quality products. If you are interested in our safety vest, please don’t hesitate to contact us for more details, or you are also welcome to visit our factory and we’d like to accept any valuable advice.
