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Hi vis and safety workwear

Hi vis vests, shirts and jackets with your logo on them

We brand hi vis clothing — we do not certify it. You choose a high visibility garment that meets what your site requires, and we put your logo on it: embroidered, or pressed in standard, reflective or fluorescent transfer. One vest or a container of them, decorated in Glenfield and couriered anywhere in New Zealand.

Decorated in Glenfield, couriered to you — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.

Before you ask

What we do
Decorate your garments — we are not a safety retailer
Methods
Embroidery, or transfer including reflective
Minimum order
None for stitching or standard transfer — one vest is a real order
Delivery
Couriered NZ-wide, South Island included. Typically 5–21 working days from artwork approval.

Brands we decorate — garment brands we supply and decorate, not our clients

  • Syzmik
  • JB's Wear
  • Deane Apparel
  • Bison
  • Bisley
  • Badger
  • Caution
  • Prime Mover
  • Portwest

The range

Hi vis clothing we brand, from vests to jackets

Hi vis workwear covers a lot of ground: a summer vest over a tee, a day/night shirt, a lined jacket for winter. Spelling varies — hi vis, hivis, hi visibility, high vis — and it is all the same gear. We decorate the garment side of it: high visibility work clothes rather than the whole safety gear list, so hard hats, boots and harnesses are somebody else's job.

Hi vis caps and beanies are embroidered, not pressed. Putting a transfer on headwear needs a cap press, which is a different machine from the flat press we run and one we do not have yet. Caps and headwear covers what we do there.

Branding hi vis

Custom hi vis: what changes when the garment is fluoro

Branded hi vis workwear is not just workwear in a brighter colour. Three things behave differently, and they are the three things worth knowing before you order.

  • Placement works around the banding

    The retroreflective banding is where it is for a reason, so a logo goes above it, below it or on a clear panel — never across it. On most vests that means a left chest and a centred back panel above the lower band. We confirm the position in writing before anything is decorated.

  • Reflective and fluorescent transfer

    A logo does not have to be a flat colour. We press reflective and fluorescent transfer material as well as standard, so a name on a back panel can light up under a headlight the same way the banding does. The film comes from our transfer partner, like every transfer we press, and we press it here.

  • The fabric is usually polyester

    Most hi vis is a polyester knit or a coated ripstop. Polyester takes both methods well, but heavily coated wet-weather shells are the usual no for a transfer, because the coating stops the transfer bonding to the fabric. Send the style code and we will tell you before you order rather than after.

Which one suits your logo is a question about the artwork and the fabric, not about hi vis specifically. The embroidery and printing pages explain each method properly.

Certification

What we will and will not tell you about compliance

Hi vis is the one garment we decorate where getting it wrong has consequences past a refund, so this section is deliberately narrow about what we actually know.

What we can tell you

  • Certified garments follow AS/NZS 4602.1:2011, which sets how much retroreflective banding a garment carries and where it sits.
  • We place a logo clear of that banding rather than across it, and we confirm the position in writing before anything is decorated.
  • We can press a logo in standard, reflective or fluorescent transfer material, or stitch it.

What we will not

What we will not tell you is what decorating a garment does to its certification. We are a decorator, not a certifier, and we have not seen a test result either way — so if certification matters on your site, confirm the requirement against the garment's own certification before you order. If your safety officer needs it in writing from the garment supplier, get that first and we will work to it.

Certified garments follow AS/NZS 4602.1:2011, published by Standards New Zealand, which sets how much retroreflective banding a garment carries and where it sits. WorkSafe's PPE guidance covers where that gear is required in the first place.

Two ways to start

Get your crew into branded hi vis

Most quotes go back the same business day. There is no obligation and no minimum order.

Or call 021 082 12843 — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.

What happens next

  1. 1. You send rough numbers and what the team does.
  2. 2. We come back with garment options and a price per garment, decoration included, usually the same business day.
  3. 3. Once you go ahead, we confirm logo size and placement in writing before anything is decorated.

How it works

From style code to a branded crew

Same three steps as everything else we do. The only hi vis-specific part is step two.

  • Step 1

    Tell us the garment and the numbers

    A style code if you have one, or just "orange day/night vests, about forty". Send the logo in whatever form you have it — a phone photo of an existing shirt is enough to start.

  • Step 2

    We quote it per garment, and flag the placement

    One price per garment with the decoration already in it, plus a one-time setup if we have not already set your logo up at that size. Caps take their own setup, so a crew ordering vests and caps together pays for two. We will say where the logo can sit given the banding on that style, and whether a reflective press is worth it.

  • Step 3

    You approve it, then we decorate it

    Size and position confirmed in writing before anything is decorated. Then the order is stitched or pressed here, packed and couriered out with tracking.

On embroidery, a price is an estimate until the logo is digitised. The exact stitch count — and with it the final price — is only known once your logo, at the size you want it, has been turned into machine instructions by a one-time setup. That setup is charged once at that size and kept on record, so reorders for new starters skip it entirely. One setup covers your garments at the same logo size, so vests and work shirts share it; caps stitch differently and need their own.

Who we brand hi vis for

Most hi vis we brand goes to three kinds of customer.

Questions

Questions people ordering hi vis ask

If yours is not here, ask when you request a quote and you will get a straight answer.

Do you supply the hi vis, or do I?

Either. We source hi vis vests NZ-wide from the same wholesalers our uniform orders come from, or you send us stock you have already bought and we decorate that. The custom hi vis vests we brand in Auckland usually start as a plain garment off a wholesaler shelf. Plenty of sites already have a preferred garment that their safety officer has signed off, and there is no reason to change it just to get a logo on it.

Will branding it affect the garment's compliance?

We cannot tell you that, and we would rather say so than guess. We are a decorator, not a certifier — we place logos clear of the retroreflective banding and confirm the position with you first, but what that does to a certified garment's status is a question for the garment's own certification or its supplier. If your site needs it confirmed in writing, get that from them before you order and we will work to whatever it says.

Embroidered or printed — which is better on hi vis?

Embroidered hi vis in Auckland is the default for a chest logo: thread outlasts the garment and does not care about the wash. Printed hi vis shirts in Auckland tend to be the ones wanting a big back panel, full colour, or reflective material in the logo itself, which stitching cannot do. We will tell you which we would pick for your artwork when we quote it.

Can you do a reflective logo?

Yes. We press reflective and fluorescent transfer material as well as standard, so a company name across a back panel can catch a headlight the same way the garment banding does. The film is printed by the same partner as all our transfers and pressed here on our own press. Both films carry a minimum run where our standard transfer does not, because our transfer partner runs those films in minimum quantities: ten transfers of each design at each size for reflective, twenty for fluorescent. That is transfers rather than garments — one logo on each vest means ten or twenty vests, though a vest carrying two of the same mark is two transfers, so ten vests reaches twenty and five vests reaches ten. A reflective logo is worth it on night work and largely wasted on a day-only crew.

Can you do hi vis caps?

Embroidered, yes. Not pressed — putting a transfer on a cap needs a cap press, which is a different machine from the flat press we run, and we do not have a cap press yet. So a hi vis cap or beanie gets a stitched logo. That is a limit on our gear rather than a view about caps.

Do you deliver outside Auckland?

Yes — safety workwear NZ-wide, North Island and South Island, rural addresses included. We decorate in Glenfield on Auckland's North Shore and everything ships from there with tracking. Ordering safety clothing NZ-wide from an Auckland decorator costs you a courier leg and nothing else.

Can I come and pick it up?

No. There is no shop, no showroom and no walk-ins — the workshop is not set up for visitors. Everything goes out by courier with tracking, Auckland included, so the answer is the same wherever you are.

What does branded hi vis cost?

Every job is quoted, so there are no prices published here. The garment you pick moves the price most, then whether the logo is stitched or pressed, then how many you order and whether we have already set your logo up at that size. A very small order also carries a handling charge, since the setup behind a job is much the same for one vest as for fifty. Send rough numbers and you will get a price per garment back, usually the same business day.

Send us the garment and the numbers

Usually same-business-day replies, Mon–Fri. One vest is a real order.