CAP Reflective Vests

[isuhawkeye]

for those of you not up to speed on the ANSI safety vest issue.  please reference this previous thread
http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=3325.0

[Eclipse]

Better still, read the actual CFR and the articles quoted above and you will see there is a fair amount of angst and discussion about this regulation including comments that the ANSI standards themselves cannot be enforced because they were enacted after the statute was approved.

https://www.rkb.us/contentdetail.cfm?content_id=200622

For starters, per the article, no existing turnout gear meets the standard, and FD is reluctant to add a layer of flammable gear to their uniform.

Until NHQ tells us otherwise, the only regs we need to worry about are the ones published by NHQ.  Obviously people are free to "gear-up" as they see fit, and my stuff would already meet the specs anyway, but there's no point in sounding the alarm on this any more than we need to take more notice than we already are on NIMS.

It effects us when NHQ says it does, unless some local MOU, etc., dictates more stringent rules and then your respective Wing CC tells you when to care.

[isuhawkeye]

No FD turn out gear meets ANSI standards.  Not because of the amount of reflective material, but because of the break away requirement, and the contrasting color requirements. 

There is a lot of grumbling in every discipline.  No one wants to add another layer of equipment, and no one wants more requirements, but in my neck of the woods we are all buying our vests, and we are all getting ready for the mandatory wear deadline

[Stonewall]

This is what I use.