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En 471
En 471
En 471
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Manish Kapadia
Let us review Chief Manager
EN 471 JISL Mumbai
Colour Control of High Visibility
Protective Clothing with reference INDIA
to EN471 Euro norm
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EN471 Basics
• High visibility warning clothing should
posses following requirements of EN 471
• Colours within specified colour range
• Minimum luminous density factor
– Fastness to light
– Colour fastness: abrasion resistance, fastness to
perspiration, washing cycles, dry cleaning,
hypochlorides, and ironing
• Dimensional change
• Maximum tensile strength / bursting strength
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EN 471 basics
Performance Requirements of Materials
• Color
• Retro reflection-night
• Fluorescence-day
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EN 471 Terms
• Fluorescent material: material that re-emits
optical radiation at wavelengths longer than
absorbed; used as Background material
• Retro reflective material: material that
reflects the light emitted by a light source
back to that source
• Combined material: material with combined
fluorescent and retro reflective properties.
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Overview of Garment Classes
Performance Class 3:
• For use in most severe environments
• Offers the greatest amount of fluorescent and
reflective coverage
Performance Class 2:
• For moderately severe environments
• Balance of fluorescent and reflective materials
Performance Class 1:
• For low-risk environments
• Lowest levels of fluorescent and reflective materials
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Overview of Garment Classes
Employers have to choose the Class severity.
(EN471 doesn't directly specify the same)
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Factors deciding Garment Classes
• Speed of Traffic through the Work zone
• Amount of Traffic through the Work zone
• Time of Day
• Is the work taking place during the day or night?
• “Background Clutter” in the Work zone
• Amount of Activity in the Work zone
• Other construction vehicles, etc.
• Type of Activity the Worker is Performing
• Where is the worker’s attention?
• Towards on-coming traffic or the task at hand?
• Location of Work
• Proximity to traffic and other construction vehicles
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Classification- class 1:
• Class 1:
• parking lot attendants,
• people retrieving shopping carts from parking
areas,
• workers exposed to the hazards of warehouse
equipment traffic and roadside
• sidewalk maintenance workers
• some delivery vehicle drivers..
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Classification- class 1:
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Classification- class 2:
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Classification- class 2:
Examples
• forestry operations
• ship cargo loading operations
• roadway construction workers
• utility workers
• survey crews
• railway workers
• school crossing guards in traffic
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Classification- class 2:
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Classification- class 2:
Yellow orange fluorescence in Daytime
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Classification- class 2:
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Classification- class 2:
Retro-reflective material shines in night
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Classification- class 2:
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Classification- class 2: continued
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Classification- class 3:
• Roadway construction personnel and flaggers, utility
workers, survey crews, and emergency response
personnel, vehicle assistance
• Anyone who has a high task load and is in close proximity
to moving equipment or traffic at high speeds
• Work Occurs at Night
• Worker’s Attention is Diverted from On-Coming Traffic
and Surrounding Environment
• “Cluttered” Work Zone with High Levels of Activity
• Worker must be Visible from All Angles and Identifiable as
a Person
• Worker has no separation between them and traffic
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Classification- class 3:
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Optional Criteria
Identification
Fire: red, Police: blue, EMS: green
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Classification- class 3:
• background material: > 0.8 m²
• retro reflective material: > 0.2 m²
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Design Specs of garments
-Retro reflective bands shall be at least 50 mm large (30
mm for safety harnesses)
-Closure systems must not interrupt the background or retro
reflective material by more than 50 mm
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Design specs of garments
jackets, waistcoats:
-2 horizontal bands around the torso and around
the sleeves at the same height
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Design specs of garments
- mechanical strength
- impermeability to water (ENV 343)
- water vapor permeability (ENV 343)
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Design of garments
Size Designation
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Design of garments
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Documentation Information Content
• Name and address of manufacturer or his authorized representative
• Instructions for use, e.g. safety checks before use, specific area of use
and limitations of use (time of wear in specific conditions), storage and
maintenance instructions, instructions for cleaning and disinfection, the
maximum of cleaning cycles without impairment of the performance
level etc.
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Documentation Information Content
Pictogram
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Design specs of garments- Color
The chromaticity and the luminance factor are specified for the
following 3 colors:
- fluorescent yellow
- fluorescent orange-red
-fluorescent red
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Instruments used for color
Use of Konica Minolta Japan-make CM
2500c 45/0 reflectance
spectrophotometer with Konica Minolta
SpectraMagic NX software with PC-
Windows XP
&
Retro-reflectance meter from Zehntner,
Switzerland
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Design specs of garments- Color
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SAMPLE REPORT : ATIRA
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Color
No other colors are allowed as background
material.
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Design specs of garments- Color
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Requirements for retro reflective material
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WHY HIGH VISIBILITY?
More than 30% of all fatalities at work in the EU are associated with
moving vehicles (Source “Accidents at Work in the EU” Eurostat, Statistics in Focus – theme 3 – 4/2000).
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Why High Visibility ?
High visibility garment makes the wearer conspicuous at all
angles during both day and night as well as periods of poor
visibility.
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Retro-reflectance Meter
Retroreflection is a special
kind of reflection where the
light is reflected back
toward the source
(headlight) but spreading
out into a very narrow
cone.
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Retro-reflectance Meter
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LEVEL 2
Retro-reflectance Meter
LEVEL 1
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Retro-reflectance Meter
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Retro-reflectance Meter
Model ZRW 5070 R’
Illumination angle β + 5°
Observation angle α 0.20°
Light source Halogen lamp with stabilized luminous intensity (x 2).
Measuring Censor According to V (λ )
Measuring range R’= 0 to 2’000 cd.m-2 .lx-1
Data Memory 1000 measurements
Display LCD display
Accumulator 8 NiCd batteries
Dimension (L x W xH) 280 x85 x 250 mm.
Weight 1.70 kg
Standards DIN EN 471 Warning clothing
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ATIRA : Konica Minolta s/w SpectraMagic screen with CM2500c for EN471
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SAMPLE REPORT : ATIRA
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Various Values-report
• Beta β= Y/100 for each sample. it indicates the overall brightness
of the
sample.
• Also, the criteria is that tone should not be out of context. That is
the
reason of limit values for each shade. (The Quadrilateral)
• The moment you fill up the columns, x,y & Y for each sample, the
graphs ,
β can be calculated automatically.
• EN-471 base also gives these values for Red, Orange, yellow etc.
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EN-471 :
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THANK YOU
Manish Kapadia.
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