Every year, thousand of construction workers suffer head injuries ranging from minor cuts to concussions to even death. Most of these types of injures would have been prevented had employees worn the proper head protection consisting of a hard hat. The following are safety rules to follow for hard hat usage:
• Hard hats are required to be worn AT ALL TIMES.
• Head injuries on a construction site may result from several areas
• Tools or material being dropped from above
• Low overhead clearance
• Hard Hats should not be altered or have any holes drilled or cut into them for ventilation
• Hard hats should be fitted tightly on your head. Wearing a baseball cap underneath a hard hat will cause the hard hat not to fit snug on your head, thus reducing it’s effectiveness
• The suspension system of the hard hat absorbs the impact of a falling object.
Inspect your hard hat for any damage. Never use a hard hat that has visible damage to the outer shell or to the suspension.
The following excuses are not acceptable reasons for not wearing your HARD HAT:
“It keep’s falling off” - adjust the suspension to fit snuggly and this wont happen.
“I get a headache from wearing it” - You’ll have a REAL BIG HEADACHE that may last for days if a falling object lands on your head!!!
“There’s nothing above be but the sky” – True, but at some point you may have to be in an area in which there is overhead work. Having it on your head at all times will eliminate your forgetting to go and grab your Hard Hat.
This information is provided by: Assurance Agency
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