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It’s not about fashion. It’s about safety

December 13th, 2008 at 05:38am Jennie Pollock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV9PcL_Ng2M

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.