Safety Vest 🦺
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A safety vest — the high-visibility reflective garment worn by construction workers, traffic controllers, emergency responders, and anyone who needs to be seen in potentially dangerous environments. Safety vests use fluorescent colors and reflective strips to make wearers visible to vehicle drivers, reducing workplace accidents.

The 'yellow vest' (Gilets jaunes) movement in France gave this garment unexpected political significance as a symbol of working-class protest. Used for construction and industrial safety content, emergency services discussions, the French yellow vest movement, volunteer work where vests identify helpers, road safety advocacy, and any context involving the importance of visibility in physical work environments.