Innovative Features Of The VisionVest
Tomorrow's Safety Vest For Today's Workers
According to the Federal Highway Administration, more than 20,000 workers are injured in road construction zones yearly. This accounts for more than 10% of the 195,600 yearly workplace injuries in the industry as a whole.
Improving worker visibility is one way to help reduce these numbers.
Current ANSI criteria for high-visibility safety apparel depend on a light source hitting the material. That doesn’t help workers stay visible in low-light or no-light areas, including during power outages and nighttime road construction.
Enter VisionVest™ With Innovative Active Lighting
Unlike traditional safety vests, VisionVest™ vests use LED/laser lighting to increase the worker's visibility proactively and without reliance on reflectivity. This is important in poor weather and low-light conditions where the distance that an outside light source extends is decreased.
The VisionVest active lighting also provides two color options, allowing you to identify new workers in the field using a different light color. This powerful visual tool can be used in new worker service programs that focus on tackling the problem of newer workers at job sites having a statistically increased chance of obtaining injuries.
A removable and rechargeable power source allows for various technology components that will promote increased mobility and productivity of the worker. Many projects have limited power sources, sometimes requiring workers to return to their cars or trailers to recharge their smart devices and tablets. The mobile power source provided in VisionVest™ vests allows workers to continue throughout their day without interruption.
Built-In GPS Location Device
A worker location device is embedded in the vest to allow workers to be instantly accounted for and located within the project limits.
This embedded GPS feature was designed to help reduce the manual data input required by the field staff and trades on site. A project is mapped electronically; boundaries are set to designate the project limits, and emergency (muster) areas are identified. A worker is located only upon entering the established project limits.
A Project Manager or Superintendent can have instant worker counts and labor classifications without waiting for other trade contractors to provide counts or enter them into a daily report.
It also helps reduce the data input required by the field staff and helps the project manager or executive who needs to check on a project remotely by seeing the total number of workers on a site at any given time.
By electronically mapping an emergency or muster area, workers can be quickly accounted for and located.
The GPS tracking integration dramatically increases worker safety and productivity.
Hydration Access
Hydration, though often overlooked, significantly impacts a worker’s productivity. Just a 1% dehydration has been found to decrease a worker’s productivity by 12%.
Water is not always readily available or in close proximity for a worker on a construction site.
Having a water source integrated into their vest, strategically placed, secure, and comfortable to wear while still performing work tasks differentiates VisionVest™.
Most importantly, VisionVest allows for easy hydration access, increases the opportunity for a worker to stay hydrated, and significantly reduces the downtime a worker would have traveling to and from a water station throughout the work day.
Furthermore, advancements in containers' ability to keep contents cold/hot now make it practical to keep these “at hand” rather than in a cooler or other location on the job site.
VisionVest™ Is Committed To Revolutionizing Workplace Safety, Improving Productivity, And Worker Health
VisionVest™ continually strives to make its users safer, more productive, and healthier by innovating the safety vest, raising awareness, and advocating for workplace health and safety.