This is, this show is brought to you by safety. FM. The following program is rated for mature audiences and may contain adult language, adult situations and frank safety discussions. The names in certain details have been changed to protect the safety and the unsafe. But believe me, every item in here is true Safety Meeting six Occupational Head Protection Today on Safety Wars. Most projects I've been on construction projects and environmental cleanups require hard hats to be worn at all times, but that doesn't always mean that we should not eliminate overhead hazards is the equivalent of putting on a seatbelt. Then saying, hey, I could go and drive like a maniac. Now that seems to be what we go through here in the new york and New Jersey area overhead hazards. What are they they include but are not limited to dropped objects, flying objects, bumping your head against a fixed object, electric trickle shocks and burns. Like with all PV. The hierarchy of controls must be followed before we start issuing hard hats or other P. B. Because it's considered the least effective means of protecting the worker. The hierarchies of controls include elimination. We try to remove the hazard substitution doesn't really apply in this case for head protection. Head to the head is still ahead to the head. An engineering control when you're isolating the person from the hazard. An administrative hazard or PPE. That's a hard hat. An assessment must be done prior to the start of work for the appropriate type of head protection. So what does that mean? You basically have two types of head protection. Our hard hats in this country, that's, the United States are rated as anti american National Standards Institute. Z 89.1. If it does not have that approval on there, it's not an approved hard at. There are two types of hard hats, Type one which was only intended for a blow to the top of the head and type two that might receive an off centre blow. And generally speaking, these are off are blunt force traumas or their appoint versus a point. Right? So if you drop something with a point and still might go through the hard hat shell. But what gives a hard hat, it's protection is the suspension system on the inside. There are also three types of hard hats. There's a class G That's intended to reduce the danger of contacts, exposures to low voltage conductors. Test samples are proof tested to 2200 volts. Classy hard hats are intended to reduce exposure to high voltage conductors and are rated to 20,000 volts. There is also a class C hard at. That's not intended to provide protection against contact with electrical conductors. There are other attributes to a hard hat. For example, isn't climbing hard hat that looks like a bicycle helmet. When the train strap is there, hard hat able to be donned in reverse. Does it indicate that you have a low temperature or high visibility? Hard at all? This stuff has to go into it. The main problem that I see out there is especially with visitors, mainly delivery people where they use what is called the bump cap or there is an insert for a baseball style cap. Those are not rated to really anything that I'm aware of. They may have some rating out there, but they are not ANSI rated and they are not meant as a hard hat. So hard hat is cheap enough to get. A lot of them are less than $10. A hard hat for a quality one. Some of them go up to over $100 for a hard hat, especially if it has some type of special protection in it or a design. And let's remember all this stuff has to be inspected regularly by a competent person by the user. If there's any defects in this stuff or if you exceed the service life together, this is the suspension or the uh, shell and needs to be gotten rid of and you get a new one. But they're cheap enough that a company should be able to replace one a year. That's what I try to do with my people for safety wars. This is jim puzzle. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the host and its guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the company. Examples of analysis discussed within this podcast are only examples. It should not be utilized in the real world as the only solution available as they are based only on very limited and dated open source information, assumptions made within this analysis are not reflective of the position of the company. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means mechanical, electronic recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the creator of the podcast, jay Allen.