Ballistic vests for police officers: using clothing comfort theory to analyse personal protective clothing

Barker, Jessica; Black, Catherine

doi:10.1080/17543260903300307

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“…Safety attitudes toward safety ethics and safety education scale items were derived from Donald and Canter [19]; negative preconceptions toward occupational risk and high visibility at a crime scene were derived from Cox, Cox, and Zimet [55]; and perceived benefits of professional appearance were derived from Kwon [42]. Functionality and comfort perception items were developed based on the literature relating to police officers' personal protective clothing [56,57]. Lastly, the item of HVSA-wearing behavior was developed to measure the duration of HVSA usage in hours and minutes per month.…”

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Understanding Police Officers’ Usage of High-Visibility Safety Apparel: The Role of Safety Ethics and Professional Appearance

Kim

Song

2021

Safety

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High-visibility safety apparel (HVSA) is personal protective clothing that provides visual conspicuity to reduce police officers’ risk of fatality or injury from road traffic accidents. Under the current U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration regulations, police officers on or near Federal-Aid highways are mandated to wear HVSA to enhance their visibility. Although wearing HVSA can significantly prevent traffic-related fatalities among police officers, studies have shown that they do not consistently, or ever, wear it. This study identifies factors influencing HVSA noncompliance among officers by exploring their perceptions of its use and efficiency. Ninety-eight police officers completed a field survey in four cities in Yavapai County, Arizona; their responses were analyzed via predictive decision tree modeling. The results indicated that officers’ HVSA-wearing behavior can be predicted by safety ethics, professional appearance, occupation risk, functionality of HVSA, and safety education. Among these predictors, safety ethics and professional appearance were the most important factors in forecasting officers’ HVSA-wearing behavior. Our study contributes to enhancing knowledge about the psychological aspects of officers’ HVSA-wearing behavior and provides implications for improving their traffic safety policies and compliance in the law enforcement community.

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Understanding Police Officers’ Usage of High-Visibility Safety Apparel: The Role of Safety Ethics and Professional Appearance

Kim

Song

2021

Safety

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“…The design method based on comfort theory Barker and Black (2009) investigated the needs of police officer clothing based on clothing comfort theory. Researchers for this study attempted to address more of the attributes from a physical dimension of clothing system, fit, and properties, than the social-psychological dimension.…”

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Conceptual design framework as a model for wheelchair users’ sportswear comfort

Lee

Jin

2019

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The conceptual design framework has been represented as a synonymous term for the model (Choosakul et al. 2009; Visek et al. 2009; He et al. 2006; Lai 2007). Choosakul et al. (2009) explained their model as "a conceptual framework that helps to better understand motivational factors that predict commitment in sport settings". Authors have used conceptual framework to describe their strategic system as a model. Therefore, these two terms are interchangeably used. Model has been used to identify variables that influence the outcome (Au et al. 2006). In certain situations, the model can estimate and predict the outcome (Askari and Krichene 2010; Rasmussen et al. 2010; Silber et al. 2010). Choosakul et al. (2009) mentioned that model "helps to better understand motivational factors that predict" outcome in the theoretical constructs. In this respect, the development of sportswear as the functional clothing design needs to be approached in the theoretical constructs so models can be used to better understand and to identify certain demands in a given situation. For example, the demand of

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“…Rutherford- Black and Khan (1995) and Black and Cloud (2008) evaluated police bicycle officers' satisfaction with the physical aspects of their patrol uniforms using 18 word pairs and 25 word pairs, respectively. Barker and Black (2009) used a 13-item scale to investigate selected comfort aspects of police officers' standard issue ballistic vests. In a subsequent study, Barker, Black, and Cloud (2010) used eight word pairs to compare officers' perceptions of the comfort performance of a standard issue ballistic panel with their perceptions of an experimental ballistic panel for insertion in ballistic vests.…”

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Evaluation of a Prototype Soft-Structured Thoracic Posture Support Garment

McRoberts

Black

Cloud

2015

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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A prototype soft-structured thoracic posture support garment was evaluated for postural alignment effectiveness, wearer acceptability, ease of movement and fit as compared to a sports bra (no posture support) and a commercial soft-structured posture support garment. Fifteen female participants conducted a wear protocol in each of the garments, were evaluated for posture, and provided wearer assessments of the other three variables. Results indicated that the prototype was as effective as the commercial support garment in improving posture but was more acceptable to wearers, easier to move in and fit less tightly than the commercial support garment. Wearer assessments of the prototype were not significantly different from the sport bra, indicating success in developing an effective posture support garment with potential for better wear compliance than existing posture support solutions.

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Ballistic vests for police officers: using clothing comfort theory to analyse personal protective clothing

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Understanding Police Officers’ Usage of High-Visibility Safety Apparel: The Role of Safety Ethics and Professional Appearance

Understanding Police Officers’ Usage of High-Visibility Safety Apparel: The Role of Safety Ethics and Professional Appearance

Conceptual design framework as a model for wheelchair users’ sportswear comfort

Evaluation of a Prototype Soft-Structured Thoracic Posture Support Garment

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