The conspicuity of six different firefighting garments was measured, from the back and from the side, and at two different positions. The experiment serves as a demonstration of the newly developed technique to quantify conspicuity. The results show that the conspicuity of firefighting garments is indeed measurable. The conspicuity of the six garments differs by up to a factor of two. The conspicuity also depends strongly on the visual environment - three times more shading resulted in a two to three times decrease in visual conspicuity. The TNO conspicuity method is a powerful tool to quantify the effective visibility of firefighter garments.

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