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Conflicting emergency vehicle pattern markings merge to create camouflage effects
Many earlier posts have described the problems associated with affixing a range of different patterned markings (especially rear chevrons) onto emergency vehicles. The problem is made even worse when a number of local agencies independently decide to display different pattern styles to brand their vehicles in an … Continue reading
Fluorescent marking creep is slowly improving the conspicuity of Australia’s emergency vehicles
It has taken many years but fluorescent markings are finally beginning to appear on more and more police, fire and ambulance vehicles around the country. While the response vehicles of some emergency services still wear the traditional Sillitoe scheme or a stylised variation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Battenburg, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Markings, Motorcycles, Police, Reflective
Tagged AFP, Ambulance, Battenburg, conspicuity
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New Perth County EMS Sprinter ambulances
Michael Crawley from Perth County, Ontario has sent me some photos of their new Sprinter ambulances with high-visibility fluorescent/reflective markings. “We now have 3 Mercedes sprinters in our fleet and have had numerous positive comments about the graphics. Just wanted to thank you … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fluorescent colours, Markings, Reflective
Tagged Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Canada, conspicuity, EMS, high-visibility, Perth County
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Ambulance crash in Victoria, Australia – HiVizTV
Two Ambulance Victoria paramedics thankfully suffered only minor injuries after hitting a street barrier while travelling to an emergency case under lights and sirens. Bystanders attempted to release the crew by breaking the windshield, however they crawled to the back of the ambulance and … Continue reading
Emergency Vehicle Markings Award of Excellence – Lethbridge Fire and EMS
Alberta, Canada Lethbridge Fire and EMS work in the City of Lethbridge which is about 220 kilometres south-east of Calgary. The latest markings on their ambulances display a fluorescent red waistline stripe with subordinate fluorescent yellow roofline and doorsill stripes. It can be challenging to design a … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Emergency Vehicle Markings Award of Excellence, EMS, Fire, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Markings, Reflective
Tagged Ambulance, conspicuity, contour, EMS, Fire, fire trucks, fluorescent, fluorescent red, fluorescent yellow, Lethbridge, Markings, paramedic, reflective, reflective markings, Star of Life, stripes, vehicle, visibility website, waistline
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A ten-point toolkit for more effective emergency vehicle warning lights
This is the final part of three articles written for the Colorado EMSAC Star. This article discusses ten vital elements in a tool-kit that provides the basis for an effective warning light layout suitable for use on any emergency vehicle. The first article in the EMSAC … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, High Visibility, HiViz-TV, Police, Reflective, Research, SES, Significant & Important Blogs, Warning Lights
Tagged Ambulance, AV Reference Library, conspicuity, EMS, fire appliance, fire trucks, headlamps, perception, safety, siren, visibility website, Warning lights
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Three new features coming to the AV Blog
Over the next few days you will see three new icons and categories appearing between the usual blog posts. There are a great number research papers, video clips and successful emergency vehicle marking layouts that deserve to be recognised even though they do not make it into … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Chevrons, Emergency Vehicle Markings Award of Excellence, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, HiViz-TV, Markings, Police, Reflective, Rescue, Research, SES, Significant & Important Blogs, Uncategorized, Warning Lights, Weekly Research Spot
Tagged Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Award, conspicuity, EMS, excellence, Fire, fluorescent, HiViz TV, Markings, pattern, recognition, reflective, reflective markings, safety, spot, vehicle, visibility, visibility website, Warning lights, weekly
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University of Ohio Driver Safety and First Responder Research – HiViz TV
The Russ College of Engineering and Technology at the University of Ohio is using a new driving simulator featuring the front half of a Ford Focus to study the most effective combination of colors, reflective stripes, lights and logos for emergency vehicles. … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, HiViz-TV, Markings, Police, Reflective, Research
Tagged Ambulance, collisions, conspicuity, Deborah McAvoy, Department of Justice, driving, emergency, EMS, Fire, fire trucks, First, fluorescent, Ford Focus, hazard, Markings, Office of Research Communications, Ohio, perception, Police, recognition, reflective, reflective markings, Responder, Russ College of Engineering and Technology, simulator, transport research laboratory, University, vehicle, vehicles, visibility, Warning lights
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Evaluating new trends in emergency vehicle markings
This is the second part of three articles written for the Colorado EMSAC Star. The first article in the series discussed the Ambulance Visibility ten-point toolkit for applying markings to emergency vehicles. This second article looks at advertising agency visibility, Battenburg … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Battenburg, Chevrons, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Markings, Police, Reflective, Research, SES, Significant & Important Blogs
Tagged Ambulance, AV Reference Library, camouflage, collisions, contour, EMS, FEMA Emergency vehicle visibility and conspicuity study, Fire, fire appliance, fire trucks, fluorescent, hybrid markings, pattern, perception, recognition, reflective, reflective markings, vehicle, visibility, visibility website
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Emergency Vehicles – Do not rely on sirens for an effective warning
When the Ambulance Visibility website was in its infancy over ten years ago one of the first webpages to be written was concerned with the inadequacies of sirens as an effective warning for fire, police and ambulance vehicles. Stephen Solomon, David Green and De … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, Police, Research, Warning Lights
Tagged accoustic, adelaide, AFP, Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Canberra, characteristics, collisions, David Green, De Lorenzo, effective, EMS, Fire, frequency, high, Howard, low, Maddern, Police, Privopoulos, recognition, rumbler, siren, sirens, Solomon, soundproofing, University, vehicle, visibility website, warning, Warning lights
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Warning light guidelines for Fire, Police and EMS ambulance vehicles
After reading through a post on Elightbars about the excessive use of LED’s and viewing a video (embedded below), I thought it might be the right time to have another look at the warning light guidelines from Ambulance Visibility. Here is a brief summary of the eleven-point … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, High Visibility, Police, Warning Lights
Tagged Ambulance, Fire, fire trucks, headlamps, pattern, visibility website, Wake Effect, Warning lights
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Why your paediatric [pediatric] ambulance transports deserve high-conspicuity safety!
I have a suggestion – go to Google images and type in pediatric ambulance (not paediatric ambulance for those of us outside the US that are using ‘proper English’). Look at the images; you can count on one hand the number … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Markings, Reflective
Tagged Ambulance, conspicuity, contour, EMS, fluorescent, Markings, neonatal, NETS, paediatric, recognition, reflective, safety, vehicle
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The difference between Battenburg high-visibility markings and Sillitoe chequers on Police, Fire & Ambulance vehicles
Almost every passing week sees another police, fire or EMS agency boasting at a vehicle launch that their response vehicles are now displaying a new world’s best practise Battenburg high-visibility markings. The agency chief always adds that the latest change to the HiVis markings has only taken place after a lengthy consultation period with … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Battenburg, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Police, Reflective, Research, SES, Significant & Important Blogs
Tagged Ambulance, camouflage, conspicuity, contour, EMS, Fire, fire trucks, fluorescent, hybrid markings, Markings, pattern, Police, recognition, reflective, reflective markings, vehicle, visibility
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ACT Ambulance reflective conspicuity markings in new medical EMS textbook
A quick post with just a bit of exciting news! Several years after designing the ACT Ambulance reflective markings I was approached by Cengage Delmar Learning publishing in the United States about supplying images for a new textbook. The authors, Richard Beebe and … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Markings, Reflective, Research
Tagged Ambulance, conspicuity, contour, EMS, Fire, fluorescent, Markings, Police, recognition, reflective markings, stripes, vehicle, visibility
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The pink steamroller vs emergency vehicle colour and markings
A few days ago the morning started out normally. I was up early so while I ate breakfast I quickly browsed through the electronic version of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper (SMH). One story with the headline The Pink Wash – Pink Ribbon Inc grabbed my attention. The … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Chevrons, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Markings, Police, Reflective
Tagged Ambulance, conspicuity, contour, EMS, Fire, fire trucks, fluorescent, Markings, recognition, reflective, stripes
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Conspicuity for emergency motorcycles – Battenburg vs Fluorescent markings
One of the first posts written in the early days of the AV blog was about the effectiveness of motorcycle conspicuity and markings during emergency response. A major part of that discussion was concerned with a growing trend in the UK to affix a modified pattern of Battenburg markings onto Police motorcycles … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Battenburg, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Markings, Police, Reflective, Research
Tagged Ambulance, AV Reference Library, camouflage, conspicuity, contour, EMS, fluorescent, Markings, motorcycle, recognition, reflective, reflective markings, safety, vehicle
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A conference, two papers and retroreflective conspicuity at night.
Conferences are a great opportunity to attend presentations discussing the latest research, to see the newest products and meet with colleagues. At the trade exhibits we are bombarded with sales pitches and a gambit of differing viewpoints. As a matter of course we tend to filter out all the sales talk and seek out the more reliable information … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, High Visibility, Markings, Police, PPE, Reflective, Research, SES, Uncategorized
Tagged Ambulance, AV Reference Library, conspicuity, fire appliance, hazard, headlamps, pattern, perception, recognition, reflective, reflective vest, safety, visibility website
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Emergency workers and HiVis clothing – our perception of safety may be dangerously flawed!
Just how how safe are we as emergency workers at an incident scene when stepping out onto the road ? Our on-road activities are an integral part of life in an ambulance/EMS, police, fire or rescue response. We pull-on a ‘safety’ vest or fluorescent jacket over our uniforms and then start work, trusting … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Battenburg, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Police, PPE, Reflective, Rescue, Research, SES, Significant & Important Blogs
Tagged Ambulance, AV Reference Library, camouflage, conspicuity, EMS, Fire, fluorescent, hazard, headlamps, Malcolm Palmer, Markings, perception, recognition, reflective, reflective vest, Shaun Helman, transport research laboratory, TRL, visibility, visibility website
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Ultrabright warning lights – never a brilliant idea for safety!
Last week I received an email from David Green urging me to read a new post from the Police Inspector Blog. The posts are written by the popular and accomplished book author who writes in the UK under the Inspector Gadget nom-de-plume. The blog … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, High Visibility, Police, Rescue, SES, Significant & Important Blogs, Warning Lights
Tagged Ambulance, collisions, conspicuity, David Green, EMS, Fire, fire appliance, hazard, Inspector Gadget, Police, safety, vehicle, visibility, Wake Effect, Warning lights
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Denver Paramedics add enhanced ambulance markings
Immediately after the 3rd Annual EMS Safety Summit held in Denver CO, Denver Paramedics retro-fitted enhanced reflective markings to their ambulance fleet. White vertical and baseline contour striping were added to the patient care compartment to clearly outline the ambulance body at night. … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, Chevrons, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, High Visibility, Markings, Police, Reflective, Research
Tagged Ambulance, conspicuity, contour, denver paramedics, EMS, Markings, reflective, reflective markings, safety, safety summit, stripes, vehicle, visibility, visibility website
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Announcing the new Ambulance Visibility Reference Library
It has always been exceptionally difficult to find accurate research without spending hours searching the internet. The new Ambulance Visibility Reference Library brings visibility and conspicuity research documents and information together in the one place for the first time. The AV Reference … Continue reading
Posted in Ambulance, AV Reference Library, Battenburg, Chevrons, Emergency vehicles, EMS, Fire, Fluorescent colours, High Visibility, Markings, Police, Reflective, Rescue, Research, SES, Significant & Important Blogs, Uncategorized, Warning Lights
Tagged Ambulance, AV Reference Library, camouflage, EMS, Fire, fire trucks, fluorescent, Markings, perception, Police, recognition, reflective, safety, stripes, vehicle, visibility
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