TJ2946T4 Pilot Jacket With Reflective Tape

CERTIFICATION

AS/NZS 1906.4.2010 Retroreflective materials and devices for road traffic control purposes – Part 4: High-visibility materials for safety garments

High Daytime Visibility Fluorescent Material

Class F garments are the most common class. This class consists of garments with high-visibility man-made fabric without reflective tape.

Fabrics woven or knitted out of natural or man-made fibers for a particular high-visibility colour range. The Standard specifies the use of certain colour spaces of yellow and orange/red. Fabrics that meet Class F have been engineered to retain more fluorescent dye, for a longer duration than natural fibres.

Wet weather garments can achieve a Class F (W) where the material passes an optional wet weather test along with the Class F classification.

Retroreflective Material

Class R Retroreflective material is applied to workwear garments in the form of high-visibility reflective tape. This material reflects direct artificial light sources – such as car headlights – back to the viewer. This fabric type is essential for night-time garments.

AS/NZS 4602.1.2011 High-visibility safety garments – Part 1: Garment for high risk applications

Day/Night Use

Designed to provide wearer visibility in both day and night-time conditions.

These garments combine the requirements of Class D high-visibility fabric with Class N requirements of reflective tape configurations.

Like Class D, Class D/N garments must have same 0.2m2 high-visibility fabric on the front and back torso, compliant to Class F and RF material standards. Class NF fabric, can be used instead, with the caveat of reduced high-visibility properties and differing care instructions.

WHY CERTIFY WORKWEAR GARMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND HIGH VISIBILITY?

Unknown to most people, workwear garments in Australia are almost always sold with the claim they are compliant to AS/NZS safety standards for workwear. The most popular claims are made to standards:

AS/NZS 1906.4.2010 Retroreflective materials and devices for road traffic control purposes – Part 4: High-visibility materials for safety garments

AS/NZS4602.1.2011 High-visibility safety garments – Part 1: Garments for high risk applications

AS 4399:2020 Sun protective clothing – Evaluation and classification

However making this claim is NOT the same as being certified to the Australian/New Zealand standards.

As a consumer you are expected to accept this claim without any further proof or validation that the necessary lab tests have been conducted and all performance requirements have been thoroughly met; upholding all proper scientific practices.

For TRu Workwear this is not acceptable. We pride ourselves in becoming the first Australian workwear provider that can validate our safety claims by providing certification.

TRu Workwear have entrusted BSI Global – international independent notifying body – to ensure that certified TRu garments meet Australian safety standards. The certification process ensures manufacturing processes and facilities, test certificates, and the product itself are audited & scrutinized so that all claims are accurate. A garment is then able to be marked certified by the BSI Certified Body.

As certified products the BSI Global and license number issued the BSI Certified Body is

presented next to the garment.