I sit somewhere between Helen and Piltdown here.
I work at an airport that seldom opens at night, presently has a handful of movements an hour, but we do do fuelling on the airfield.
And if I want to get in serious trouble, I can easily do so by failing to wear my inflammable hi-viz vest in broad daylight, to walk across the quiet-as-the-grave apron, as we refuel the aircraft.
Clearly, at night in the rain, on a busy apron, nobody but an idiot would leave their hi-viz in the office. But the "thou shalt always" attitude applied to them in some places is indeed a classic symptom of mindless tick-box rulemaking. The word "insurance" usually comes up very quickly when you challenge such absurdities, as if the insurance company had ever actually been consulted or expressed an opinion on the topic, which invariably they have not.
So, comparing the way this is often imposed, against Piltdown's description of "tick a box for the mentally retarded half-wits who think they improve safety at these places." Yeah, pretty much !