It’s not about fashion. It’s about safety
Add comment December 13th, 2008
You might see Register Star staffers wearing orange vests in the near future.
A new federal law requires anyone working on a federal highway to wear approved safety vests. Rather than worry about which are federal and which are not, whom it applies to or not, we — and the National Press Photographers Association and other media organizations — are adopting a “wear it anyway” policy
Reporters and visual journalists working a breaking news assignment where emergency crews are likely to be need to wear the vests, especially if out on a road or street.
We have 22 of these, and they came in this week.
Originally we were just going to take a photo and show you, but multimedia guru Chris Soprych enrolled delivery editor Collin Quick to have a little fun with a video.
