Showing posts with label Builders Hat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Builders Hat. Show all posts

Wednesday 8 June 2016

Iron Man

A man with iron.

Wearing a hard hat.

Ironing is a tough job and safety is important.


The builders hard hat is seen everywhere in today's safety conscious environment and rightly so, the amount of fatalities and lesser injury as dropped dramatically since the days when work wear was jeans and t shirt. If I go on building site I now have to wear gloves, safety boots, hi-viz jackets, safety glasses as well as a hard hat and that's alongside safety training and all the permits you might sign.



Hard hats were once steel but now they are rigid plastic designed to protect the head from falling object or banging your head on projecting nasty objects, essential where there is any risk, one of these saved me from nasty injury when a bolt was dropped from scaffold tower 30 foot and hit the hat, I felt a heavy bang but nothing else.

The hard hats were first worn at the very end of the 19th century in the USA who seem to have led the way in their use.


This one is quite old and probably no longer to current standards but makes a great costume prop.