ABC Safety Glasses Posting Page
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
There have been many instances on the job where an employee has gone out on the job site "just for a minute" and been hit by a falling object and received a head injury. A small object can gain enough velocity when dropped from a height that it can actually cause a blow to the head that can be fatal. Wearing a hard hat can help alleviate this concern.

Also, understand that all hard hats are not created equally. Get a safety rated hard hat. You need more than just a hard piece of plastic on your head. A lot of engineering goes into a professional quality hard hat. It means that the hard hat will absorb most of the blow instead your head. When your head receives a blow, the real injury occurs to your brain. Inside your head your brain will be knocked from one side of your skull to the other and this can cause dangerous swelling resulting in brain damage and even death. Using a hard hat that is designed to take the shock of an impact rather than letting your head absorb it will go a long way towards keeping your noggin safe.

If you purchase hard hats for your work crew and they seem less than enthusiastic about wearing their hard hats, you can make the hat itself more enticing by getting hard hats that have their favorite sports team's logos. If your crew complains that their hard hats are too hot in the wear in the summer, don't let them use that as an excuse to be unsafe. There are cooling pads that can go across the forehead of your worker or in the hat itself and will generate coolness inside the hat for hours. ** MLB Hard Hats

Extreme cold can be another reason that employees negate wearing their hard hats. You can also offer head liners that cover the head and neck or liners that cover the entire face and head except for the eyes. The hard hat fits over the top of the liner and will stay snugly fitting on top of the worker's head. ** Winter Liners

Make sure that you always wear a hard hat whenever you're in a situation that anything has the potential cause a head injury through impact. If you have employees that work in these conditions, if you don't already have a written safety policy, create one and make sure everyone is aware of your policy and signs off that they understand they need to wear all safety equipment at all times and notify you if they are lacking in equipment or need new safety equipment. That way you can have the peace of mine that you're running the safest work site possible.