What kind of hard hat do you prefer?

I haul steel, not fuel. I deal with the same companies all the time. I'm sure there is some place that will be specific, but the places I go just require general PPE.

 

I'm in the camp that hates wearing them, period. Safe travels

 

I prefer my full brim metal hard had only because I've had it for years, the best hard hat tho is the one that works... I've also used a few bump caps but didn't like how the rain kept dripping down my neck

 

I have a hard hat with full brim. Helps in the rain, but if I am leaning forward in a strong winds it will catch the brim and try to pull it off my head. However, it has the size adjustment where you turn a knob in the back to tighten or loosen it. Never get a hard hat without this feature, the ones you adjust by pulling apart two ends of the head band and count holes to click it back together. That's a PITA and you can't quite get it right if you need to wear a knit cap or balaclava under it.

 

I'm in the camp that doesn't like wearing one at all. However, most of my customers require it so I have one and wear it. It's the basic brim to the front style, I got it when I was 19 and working for a road construction company. I've panicked a few times thinking that I left it behind on a job. That hat has been a lot of places with me, and one thing I've learned is that a clean hard hat is a sign of a new guy or an office guy and neither one knows a thing. (It's not right, I know, but that's the lay of the land on a job site.) Kinda like clean work boots with no scuffs.

Mine is in dire need of a new sweat band though, the original one is long gone and the plastic started cutting my forehead last week.

The foreman I worked for at the construction company had his hardhat from the 60's that he wore; and about a half dozen new ones in his pickup. He threatened to shoot the safety guy at the suggestion of him wearing one of the new ones. Superstition and tradition were important to him.

 

The one I stole from BNSF.

 

Yea the cowboy style one's Flour Const in Ga. didn't like them either.. My one buddy had one and they told him get it off and get another or get off the site now.. He showed them the safety stickers and said doesn't matter.. So I had to loan him my wife's hard hat and she got to sit in the trk. watching the world go bye.