Orange Or Yellow ? A Trivial Question.

[Canary42]

While observing a supermarket worker clearing trolleys yesterday wearing an orange High-Visibility waistcoat. A bit later at B&Q the guy involved in an identical task had a yellow one. It occurred to me there might be a convention governing whether yellow or orange is used (for everybody, not just supermarket workers of course).

Is there ?

[ubasses]

Can't answer your question but it reminded me that last week the Borough Council sent us yellow waitscoats for the litter pick. One of the volunteers insisited on wearing his own orange one. Never thought to ask why.

[Old_Geezer]

Ask the Bells of Saint Clements.

Maybe the lighter ones have been washed too often.

[Buenchico]

There are conventions within certain industries but not in general. For example, only orange hi-vis clothing is used by rail workers because that's the colour which train drivers are specifically trained to watch out for. Yellow seems to be more 'general purpose' though; all of the small mountain of hi-vis jackets in the back of my car (for when I lead teams working on transport surveys) are yellow ones.

[choux]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/different-colors-reflective-vests-represent-meanings-ryain-zhang

[choux]

https://www.thinknsa.com/blog/high-visibility-safety-apparel-orange-versus-yellow

I didn't realise how many different colours are available but surely the orange or yellow are the most effective?

[ummmm]

It varies from council to council.

[ummmm]

Yes, choux, it mainly yellow. My OH has to wear yellow hi-vis trousers and jacket.

[Canary42]

Wow ! Not trivia after all perhaps - there's a whole lotta people studying it out there.

Thanks for those links Choux, especially the second one (I found the first a bit incoherent - seemed like an auto-translation) which answers my question.

[Buenchico]

Of course, there's no need to stick with just one colour . .
https://www.workwearexpress.com/vests/p-c481-portwest-two-tone-hi-vis-vest

[wolf63]

Some railway workers wear yellow.

[douglas9401]

When you say 'yellow' you do of course mean green.

[Patsy33]

https://youtu.be/qlHC7BvpwAE

[wolf63]

[10ClarionSt]

In some companies, the colour is relevant to the position in the management structure, e.g. Yellow = hourly paid/shop floor; Orange = Supervisor; Green= Management; Blue=Senior management.