When should high-visibility clothing be worn?
High-visibility clothing is PPE workwear governed by standard EN 20471. It is essential when working in low-visibility conditions, particularly on the roads. Lack of visibility is a fatal occupational hazard.
Wearing high-visibility warning clothing is therefore compulsory for many professionals. In fact, the French Labour Code ‘requires individual high-visibility signage in situations where it is necessary, or even essential, to be seen’.
The Interministerial Instruction on Road Signs and Signals specifies the conditions for wearing high-visibility work clothing: ‘any person working on foot on the road during a worksite or in the event of a temporary hazard must wear class 2 or 3 high-visibility signalling clothing’.
