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Posted By santhosh vasudev
Is there any requirement for welders to wear hard hats in addition to the welding helmets while welding, especially in construction sites?
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Posted By anon1234
Depends on whether there is a risk of head injury - if so then obviously yes. Also may be that the site is designated hard hat so you'd need to consider how you comply with this or demarcate their work area nad make it a safe no-hardhat zone.
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Posted By Darren J Fraser
Dare I say it.......but it is all to do with your risk assessment and the controls in place (remembering that PPE is at the bottom).
Certain suppliers (the usual suspects) have hard hats with welding shield attachments available.
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Posted By Kenneth Patrick
Why do you see so many people on road work sites wearing hard hats when you might think they would be better served with a warm woolly hat?
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Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney
I really wish they were re-named to bump hats, a hurtling great steel beam falling will offer little protection to the head, or anywhere else for that matter.
I consider the policies in place for "oh, and you have to wear a hard hat" and I am not referring to construction sites or mandatory HH areas, are poor at best, saw two guys just today collecting leaves in a park area wearing hard hats;
Just so much overkill with hard hats, have seen cyclists wearing them as well, no chin straps though!
CFT
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Posted By Martyn Hendrie
There already is a type of head protection called a "bump cap". It is normally worn in work environments where the risk is not so much falling objects but striking your head against a static object. (e.g. within a tunnel)
The difference is that there is no harness or air gap simply a hard shell and a polystyrene lining.
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Posted By Barry Cooper
Last year I visited an Austrian paper mill. All visitors had to wear hard hats. Me being me, I asked why.
Answer "in the event that an icicle falls from external steel work in winter". He has a point I thought (sorry for the pun) but I replied, why are employees not wearing them, ah! said the host, they know where the icicles are and can avoid them.
And it was summer at the time
Barry
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Posted By santhosh vasudev
We have trailed with several hard hat-welding helmet combo units, and has come up with complaints from our welders, which included weight, neck pain, quality of weld, durability of fittings etc.
I cannot regard them as the initial resistance from the welders, as the product catalogue for auto darkening helmets from 3 M also mentions such problems with conventional combo units.
Has anyone come across such a feedback from welders?
Use of bump caps were rejected by our clients as they offer zero protection against falling objects.
Any reply is appreciated.
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