Posts filed under 'Vests'
Well, sometimes they become ‘vintage’ or ‘collectable’ (1970s McDonalds workwear is selling for a goodly price on eBay) and sometimes it just gets dumped in rubbish bins or charity shops, but Festival Place shopping centre in Basingstoke has something else in mind. Their old uniforms are to be recycled. More than 600 items, including:
- 350 shirts
- 140 pairs of trousers
- 50 jumpers and cardigans
- 20 Hi-Viz coats
- 30 Hi-Viz waistcoats
- 30 ties
- 60 fleeces
- 20 blazers
- and four suits, have been collected.
They will all be sent to Devizes Textile which will sort through the items, sending the best quality clothing to Africa to be reworn, and recycling the rest into items for industrial use. Danny Williamson, company partner at Devizes Textiles, was equally happy to help. He said, ‘This is the first shopping centre that we have worked with and we look forward to working with them in the future to help reduce Basingstoke’s landfill.’
Workwear, and work colleague, photograph courtesy of Robstephaustralia
April 23rd, 2008
This Wednesday (27 February) most of the students, and teachers, at Catholic schools in Vancouver, Canada, will be wearing pink polo shirts to show their solidarity against bullies and bullying. In a heart-warming story, pink polo shirts have become an anti-bullying symbol after a student in Nova Scotia was harassed when he wore a pink polo shirt on the first day of school. A group of bullies accosted the boy, called him names, claimed he was homosexual, and threatened to beat him up.
Two older students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, were incensed to hear about this behaviour and went to a local discount shop, where they bought 50 pink vests which they handed out at assembly the following morning. The bullies were never heard from again. ‘I learned that two people can come up with an idea, run with it, and it can do wonders,’ said Price who is 17. ‘Finally, someone stood up for a weaker kid.’ The ‘pink polo shirts’ strategy spread fast, becoming a feature of dozens of schools across Canada. Now a national radio DJ has taken it to heart.
Wednesday’s Pink Polo Shirts Day is part of her on-air campaign to encourage an action plan about bullying. ‘We also want parents and teachers to understand how important a role they can play in helping kids who are bullied,’ the DJ Clark said. ‘It seems everyone has a story. So many people either bear the scars of being bullied, the shame of having been a bully themselves, or are dead scared it will happen to their child. Bullying and the harm it does can last a lifetime. Getting involved in Pink Polo Shirts Day fulfills our mission to help the innocent. It also lets bullies know their behaviour will not be tolerated.’
Pink polo courtesy of sometimesdee
February 25th, 2008
Areas of the UK have recently experienced the worst effects of winter and it seems there may be more to come. Employers who have staff working outdoors, and the emergency services in particular, work with Health and Safety organisations to ensure their employees are safe – so what do they do to protect themselves and what can the rest of us learn from this? First, anybody working outside especially in trades like construction, commercial fishing, delivery work and agriculture is vulnerable. Exposure to freezing and cold temperatures for extended periods of time can in rare circumstances lead to real health problems such as hypothermia and cold water submersion can easily result in death. Danger signs include uncontrolled shivering, slurred speech, clumsy movements, fatigue and confused behaviour. If these signs are observed, call immediately for emergency help.
To prevent things getting to this stage:
- Consider whether environmental and workplace conditions may be dangerous and change work schedules to ensure work is done in the warmest part of the day (midday onwards until dusk)
- Encourage employees to wear proper clothing for cold, wet and windy conditions, including layers that can be adjusted to changing conditions, and high visibility clothing so that they can be spotted if they suffer injury.
- Ensure that employees in extremely cold conditions take frequent, short breaks in warm dry shelters to allow their bodies to warm up.
- Use the buddy system, making sure staff work in pairs so that one employee can ensure the other is safe
- Provide warm, sweet beverages (sugar water, sports-type drinks) and avoid drinks with caffeine (coffee, tea, sodas or hot chocolate) or alcohol. Make sure there are warm, high-calorie foods such as hot pasta dishes on offer for lunch breaks etc.
Glasgow snow by moron noodle
January 10th, 2008
Auto Express recently published the results of an experiment they carried out to test the effectiveness of high visibility vests – a bit of a misnomer that, as we’d called them waistcoats or jackets, ‘vest’ being the American term, but anyway ….
They tested four roads, one lit by street lamps, the other three not. A person stood on the roadside as the testers drover past. For the first test he wore his street clothes; for the second a high visibility vest. A stopwatch recorded the gap between the driver spotting the pedestrian and the vehicle reaching him – in other words, the driver’s reaction time. The pedestrian was relocated for each test so the driver couldn’t anticipate his position. The results were shocking.
Route one was a narrow, heavily wooded rural road with light but fast-moving traffic and no pavement or street lamps. At 40mph, blinded by oncoming headlamps, the driver spotted the pedestrian only three seconds before reaching him. In reflective gear, the reaction time was more than tripled to eleven seconds meaning the reaction distance was nearly quadrupled!
The next story is even worse - on a fast, unlit dual carriageway at 65mph, the pedestrian wasn’t spotted until two seconds before being passed – barely time to operate the stopwatch! The driver would never have avoided him had he stepped into the road but with the high visibility top, the time was seven seconds and the reaction distance was again virtually quadrupled. Interestingly, in the third ‘unlit’ test – the only one carried out with headlamps on full beam – the differentials were smaller but the overall reaction times better. On a open A-road there was more opportunity to spot the pedestrian. At 40mph the figure was six seconds. With the high visibility clothing, sixteen seconds - over twice the time and about two-and-a-half times the viewing distance. The final trial was on a busy, lit suburban A-road at 35mph. As you would expect, the pedestrian was spotted much sooner, without and with a vest. The reaction time was 25 seconds when the pedestrian had the vest on, so the driver even had time to pull over to help without endangering pedestrian, himself or other traffic.
Perhaps it’s time for Britain to follow the lead of Spain, Italy and Portugal, and make it compulsory for drivers to carry high visibility vests and wear them in a breakdown?
Safety vests must be worn photograph by Exfordy, used under a creative commons attribution licence
October 16th, 2007
For a limited time only we are offering a £10 discount to buyers using Google checkout.
To earn a £10 discount, buyers who haven’t signed up for Google Checkout in the past must sign-up for Checkout on Google or on a Google Checkout merchant web site such as www.polo-shirts.co.uk. To redeem the £10 discount, buyers need to make a purchase of at least £30 Inc Vat, (not including delivery charge). The discount is automatically deducted from the order at checkout. It is as simple as that.
You can even use google checkout on discounted, end of line and sale items. Talk about unbelievable value . Using the £10 discount, £30 you could buy the following items from our special offers:
52 Ladies Vests
17 Northquay Shirts available in XXL or XXXL
17 Northquay Polo-shirts
70 Childrens baseball caps
17 Pairs of mens boxer shorts
We don’t sell cheap T-shirts or cheap Polo-shirts. These prices are on top quality clothing from leading manufactures such as Fruit of the Loom and Hanes and which have been reduced in price to clear them from our warehouse.
Click here for more information on our special offers.
May 31st, 2007
