Hard Hat Safety Demonstration

[@maxwind1862]

PPE is so important on the job. I just bought a pair of Keen steel-toe boots a couple weeks ago. I damn near didn't wear them today. As luck would have it, it was rivet buster day on a concrete wall. 20 minutes in, a large piece of concrete fell on my foot. My shoes saved my foot, and a few paychecks from not being injured. Stay safe everyone

[@jeffharper7579]

I work in a stone quarry and when I have to get out of the front end loader to check on stuff my hard hat is right beside me so I grab it put on but nobody else does ( I'm in my mid 50s and the "kids" that are half my age don't ,only 6 of us ) at least I know I will be ok to go home every night. Our stupitvisor sez we don't have to wear them if no inspector is there.😵😵😵😵.

[@ronbelanger4113]

@@jeffharper7579 The old "safety starts with you" posters!

[@jeffharper7579]

Yep and just by chance today the ground guy was hit with a small stone and said ouch it hurt I said HARD HAT! He said it was just a small rock, some day it could be bigger but kids don't learn.

[@ginoschlegel6370]

Crazy to think that in switzerland hard hats only became mandatory for construction sites back in the year 2000

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

Euros no longer have a right to knock US, when it comes to worker saftey.

[@random_profile_4046]

@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 😂 Asbestos is still legal in US....

[@usa5439]

​@@random_profile_4046On July 12, 1989, EPA issued a final rule banning most asbestos-containing products

[@michaelgarrow3239]

Um,,, there was never a rule you couldn’t wear a hard hat… Piss off…

[@sweeterstuff]

yeah its illegal to produce more asbestos products but it would be too costly and hard to safely dispose of all existing ones

[@KuntChitface]

I just had a sleever bar dropped on my head. In a way I never thought was possible. and Im only alive because of my hard hat, even though I was told not to wear it this morning. holy fuck

[@musickidwonder]

Someone wanted you dead

[@bigboi9856]

You need to report that safety violation. under no circumstances in construction should you be told NOT to wear protection. I would quit immediately after filing a complaint. They dont care about your safety, so don't work for them

[@Jedi-Nite]

​@@bigboi9856 don't work for the Amish 😅

[@kaptainkaos1202]

My colleagues used to laugh at me because when we would go out aboard ship I always wore my hard hat and jeans no matter how hot it was. The top of my hard hat got so scuffed up going thru hatches but my chief scientist got 11 stitches in the top of his head. Their shins would be all barked up from the knee knocker hatches cause they’d wear shorts if it was hot. Nope, I stuck with jeans. One day one of my engineers complained it was too hot to wear his hard hat. I wouldn’t allow him in the recovery area without one so he went forward. No hard hat equaled a severely sunburned top of his head. So it’s not always about dropping things. Also my son is an iron worker and I sent this to him. Thankfully I was able to impress the need for PPE so he always has his stuff.

[@kyles5513]

Try working in a sag or ball mill to change out the worn liners in full ppe and thick coveralls. No that was hot and humid af.

[@Kevin-fj5oe]

All that hard work for your family is useless if you come home in a body bag.

[@ShermanT.Potter]

Love the comedy mixed in! I saw someone in the comments mention steel toe boots, and that reminded me of when I was getting a pair of redwings, the salesperson recommended composite vs steel in my case (cattle farmer at the time), due to steel potentially bending and keeping my foot caught in the boot if a cow stepped on me. Don't know if that has merit, but thought I'd throw that out there.

[@Mortablunt]

I don’t really know the answer to that but I do know that it’s something like that happens you’re gonna get a serious injury and what the protective cap does is make the difference between possibly losing the foot and just needing a cast for a few weeks.

[@MrSchribes1767]

if theres enough weight to bend the steel toe in, then it will smash your toes to pieces without the steel. Mythbusters did an episode on this. Both are fine, but steel toe is going to be better.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

As far as I’m aware, the only real reason to choose composite over steel is electrical safety. Any force that can bend a steel cap will also destroy your toes.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

ANSI Z41 PT 99 is the spec that covers boots for this instance. The minimum weight a steel toe must support is 1,000 lbs and up to 2,500. Divide the weight of the cow by 4, 4 feet right, and if that value is less than 1,000 lbs the toe won’t even begin to deform.

[@kyles5513]

Redwings are good if you want a leg workout all day.

[@TheJchronic]

Hey, random dude here. I've seen many a BS PPE work related videos, this one is actually fun

[@DocumentNegativity]

It's light and informative actually a good saftey vid.

[@KevinZ.000]

We were issued new hard hats a few weeks ago, my is already scuffed up. We work in tight spaces and I'm always bonking my head.

[@MrCharlieArgo]

4:51 "What should we do with these busted up watermelons?" "Not my farm, not my problem"

[@victoryelectriccooperative5065]

No worries, the cooperative owns and maintains the property on the other side of the fence, too!

[@DocumentNegativity]

^ Good Reply.

[@sophiaann2986]

Even with my hard hat my co workers are always finding ways to kill or maim me in the workplace

[@theusher2893]

This is why I wore the old style with the wide brim. I wanna protect my nose, too.

[@dwaynejones1555]

I was a buyer looking at commercial property being renovated not wearing a hard hat. Got my scalp skinned from a guy handling a giant drill as I passed under a stairwell. Never again!

[@languid-4535]

Oh my god! I’m glad you survived

[@mattke5etc]

It's time to redo these tests with a zombie head that they use on Kentucky ballistics. It would really show us how dangerous this is.

[@todydn]

Lets put it this way the danger isnt the impact to the skull its the compression of the spine at the base of the skull if they had balistic acurate heads theyd see the damage to the c spine hard hats are cyoa for jobsites thats all

[@m0rbidhusky]

This just shows how much of a difference it makes. If a hardhat can completely protect a fragile watermelon, it’ll do a lot for you.

[@K9River]

I was logging and walked far away from my partner who was felling trees. I took my hard hat off and drank some water. He fell a tree which hit a dead snag which hit another snag of which the top hit me right square on the top of my head. It was about 3/4 of an inch in diameter, but it was enough to drive me straight to my knees. It split my head open, but the worst pain was my neck.

[@earljklec1684]

You had me at washer

[@kyles5513]

Working in mine concentrator buildings with tons of tight spaces and confined spaces, I've walked my head into so many things, like real hard too to the point if I wasn't wearing it I'd probably be dead.

[@ronbelanger4113]

Head down walked into a steel beam, brain bucket was on duty!

[@ottopartz1]

It's always amazed me how much protection a basic plastic hard hat provides considering it weighs about the same as a can of pop.

[@briandeschene8424]

Thumbs up for calling it pop. :-)

[@WickedPhase]

I agree! It's impressive engineering

[@chriswelcome8102]

Imagine how impressed this guy would be hearing about Kevlar

[@Lilitha11]

If you think about it, helmets were invented almost 5000 years ago. Humans have a long history of getting hit in the head with stuff, so we know a thing or two about making head protection.

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

We have bump caps where I work. So I bought the one with the protective ring. It helps to eject falling items past your shoulders!👍 Good job guys. Proper PPE made me the man I am today. I may not be the richest, but I have all 10 fingers and 10 toes. That's 20 reasons to still work safely.😆🍅

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Even just working around an assembly line, I could see the benefit of a hardhat. I wear a baseball cap with a thick patch on the front and that alone has saved my head from some goose-eggs and gashes, that tiny bit of protection is better than nothing. Steel toes as well, the other day a 70lb plate of steel fell on my foot from 8 inches up, didn't feel a thing

[@nuryzepeda9770]

great demostrations, thank you for making this video!

[@rikigilley1301]

One time years ago working out in the woods pulp wooding logging with my dad and that happened to me one time and it was a big limb hit in my fiber metal ship yard hard hat and it took a real hard hit and it sure did safed my life and i knew that i was thinking safety first that's why i love hard hats and have a good reason why i have to wear my hard hat while I'm working under trees and the wind be blowing so hard just in case of the wind blows a big limb down out of any of those trees if it wasn't that hard hat I wouldn't be here today

[@bobbytrujillo3037]

Im a stonemason and had a bucket of Rocks fall on my head sending rocks up on Scaffolding. Knocked me out almost feel off the roof. So lucky and take safety now at 100 percent

[@carsonyoung9965]

Work for a pipe manufacturer as a videographer. Was shooting in and around hydraulics at one factory. Stood up and smacked my head right into a heavy pipe. Would have been concussed and/or bleeding from head if not for hard hat. They are required for a reason

[@thetwentiethman3008]

I find it hard to believe those melons volunteered for this.

[@artizzy2k2k]

I am working as a custodian at a school and my coworkers don't wear ANY PPE. We have to strip wax off the floors during the summer which obviously involves stripper. Highly corrosive, very fumey. I'm the only one wearing waterproof boots, pants, gloves, and a respirator. Everyone else wears tennis shoes, which obviously soaks their feet in stripper. They worry me to death.

[@KalebMarshallDulcimerPlayer]

I used to work floor care. Working with floor stripper without good boots is unthinkable. That stuff gets real slippery.

[@artizzy2k2k]

@KalebMarshallDulcimerPlayer our boss got us some things to slip over our shoes they work good but they cut into your shoes. I've been going without it because my boots are getting cut. I've gotten used to walking in it. Also the slip ons have a bad side effect of being slippery on the untouched floors so either way there is a fall hazard.

[@ronwade2206]

Went on a Baptist Mission to Bulgaria October, 2015, 50 piece orchestra we started in Sophia and drove more than 1500 miles performing more than 15 concerts in 9 days. They were building a new interstate freeway system, we saw cell phone towers being built and climbed but we did not see... A single bright orange or green vest and only a few hard hats. Bulgaria also just got a brand new NATO Air base that 45 miles across! Funny thing is, stuff gets built and fixed all over this planet with nothing more than safety Slippers.

[@blockededited8280]

What's your point?

[@DocumentNegativity]

Probably saying that we use a lot more saftey equipment in the states but work slower. That in other parts of the world people don't care and get the job done. (Personally I like living and not having terrible avoidable injuries that might come from being on a fast moving site.)

[@CKSeams]

That one guy has a heck of a beard.

[@oldfarmer9004]

That last item hitting the hard hat would still generate a workman’s compensation claim. The impact would cause neck injuries that might go undetected for years. It happened to a guy at work

[@chriswelcome8102]

Yeah, the idea is to reduce the risk of serious injury or death. No need to worry about the workers comp if you're not wearing the hard hat

[@brianorca]

Better a worker comp claim than a life insurance claim.

[@eoingaskin]

Its 1 am, i have work tomorrow and yet here i am, watching a video about hard hats.

[@johnvelas70]

my Dad dropped a hatchet on my head from a bit over 20 feet. My skull dented the hatchet blade. But their ain't not nothing wrong with me. Oh yeah & my head bled for a little bit.

[@Jedi-Nite]

I had a small wooden block fall just a few feet that busted my head open Only broken the skin but can't imagine if it was metal and how bad off I'd be

[@soramame7528]

Thank you.

[@UnskilledGrappler]

Many watermelons were harmed in the making of this video.

[@dinodude7773]

Dang hard hats actually are safe.

[@olddirtypelican]

This may be the stupidest comment ever

[@hardwaylearner]

Work with hazmats for just a week and youll never jave a problem putting on PPE again

[@Ivan_Ooze]

I think ide rather yell “Ow what the f was that” rather then waking up in a hospital

[@user-dr8du6ee6i]

Was that the same hard hat in all the demonstrations? Did it survive 4 hits?

[@johnr5252]

It would be a better demo to use an actual skull.

[@Spheredalai]

ya lads having fun huh

[@AnttiHara]

Here is my watermelon + hard hat + 3.25t shackle video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2fGpaeplq-jjMk The test result is the same, a hard hat protects against many dangers.

[@KTMcaptain]

Sort, Set, Shine, Standardize, & Sustain

[@stillteachin]

He keeps saying PeePee 😂

[@eprofessio]

I left my impact at the top of the ladder and it hit me in the back. It hurt like hell, thankfully it had a nut driver bit.

[@niceguy6837]

I saw a guy throw a square washer at a lead man from the top of his scissor lift and hit him right in the forehead. They were both meth heads so he didn't report it. He just had a small gash

[@DiogenesOfCa]

Why is this showing up in my recommendations? I work at a desk all day.

[@oneflyguy1949]

Hard hats save mels

[@EffySalcedo]

4:57 😎🍉🤣🤣

[@TheSiriusEnigma]

No one plans to get hurt. Real life doesn’t care. Be ready.

[@MoctezumasRevenge1]

your brain will be saved, but not your spine.

[@cliffhammer7953]

Use your head.....Wear the hard hat!

[@myalterego2878]

I'm thinking a few of them would have caused spinal injuries

[@MrYuk-lm3xp]

What a waste of DELICIOUS WATERMELONS

[@edsel6818]

Love that watermelon, MMMMM. MMMM, 😋😋 🍉🍉🤩 saftey is always First PRIORITY, 😁💪👌🤠👍👍

[@somnorila9913]

But the watermelon doesn't have bone protection...

[@kingOpooPee]

Now hit the hard hat center mass dont graze the back of it

[@chubbyjohnson5480]

It's watermelon time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@brandonsciulli774]

Would’ve been kinda funny if one of the guys on the ground observing didn’t have one on. Would’ve been so contradicting

[@Jedi-Nite]

😅I was looking for that

[@mohammedalqadi3343]

😮😮😮😳😳😳❤❤❤

[@sexyman381]

so scary

[@damnkris]

Safety is so sweet. mmmmm

[@Rocketman88002]

Hard hats for not so hard heads.

[@tedlogan4867]

So, how do people get this job? Dropping stuff out of a bucket onto a melon sounds like good fun.

[@ILikeTallMen]

This gives me so much respect for hard hats 👍

[@justinmas299]

Ok but why do you hate melons so much?

[@jebise1126]

last thing... it would break your neck probably even with helmet o

[@shawn1432]

I didn’t hear anything about neck compression injuries

[@akinofue]

you can survive that, but without the hard hat.....no way.

[@henrybierman8431]

Try it with a tree branch

[@MelodyMan69]

Hard Hats only work on melon heads..??

[@chrismellon127]

Its crazy tht a piece of plastic can save ur life!!

[@-_-----]

obviously just OSHA propaganda. the first rule of any industrial workplace is to HAVE FUN

[@DanArnets1492]

But I wanna die... 😢

[@Sambenmaggie]

Now when we're talking about a few hundred pounds of force for the last few hits, wouldn't they completely break your neck anyway?

[@maxium0839]

Still better survival odds than if it went straight through your skull

[@stonewall008]

I mean it doesn't invalidate everything else. In addition anything that can increase your chances of not being obliterated even by a single digit % is still worth it.

[@dixienormous6052]

There’s many factors, but a lot of the force is absorbed by the hard hat. So, no, it wouldn’t necessarily break your neck.

[@ianbowles5839]

If the hard hat suspension is installed correctly and hard hat is worn correctly it will dissipate a specific and substantial amount energy. Energy dissipation through the neck is in the ANSI standard for hard hats.

[@elultimo102]

@@dixienormous6052 You might still need a trip to the chiropractor---

[@SteelWolf13]

Hope you hope own the field that you chuck the melon over the fence into.

[@akinofue]

Food for birds....

[@leftylou6070]

How come that woman wasn't wearing a hard hat?

[@erikdog2430]

The melon thumbnail caught my curiosity 😁........... Anyway, a brim hat vs non brim. Suppose a pipe or tree branch fell on the brim itself on the side. QQQ would the sudden jerk on the side be sufficient enough to cause the neck to be injured severly ....rather than a non brim which would allow the object to smash the collar bone .????????? I think a broken collarbone is better than a broken neck. Your thoughts ?????

[@niceguy6837]

Good thing I have bones, next time use something that actually simulates an actual human head

[@danielalt7508]

If there is something important to protect, it is good to wear a helmet.

[@assassinlexx1993]

Everyone knows that wears a hardhat in construction. That most things miss the hardhat and nails your shoulder. Or that rock does hit your hardhat it scares the crap out you. But in the end they do save your brain bucket.

[@rs4425]

PPE

[@phillhuddleston9445]

Now some innocent, unsuspecting person will slip and fall while walking through that field on those slippery watermelon chunks, safety first!

[@cindyaguilar669]

Try a human not a watermelon please I want to make sure my ppe is for sure

[@ramirolopez-cx8gc]

cindy youre just stupid

[@Momo_Kawashima]

"In order to get the full use out of your PP" My honest reaction: haha, he said PP

[@BigBassTurd]

Head ache!

[@rumelian]

So watermelons should not work

[@Nitephall]

I think she's allergic lol.

[@erasamus1057]

watermelons don't have skulls

[@Cukito4]

Bone is harder than watermelon. Also, why the countdown? Why not just drop it?

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

0:21 PPE does Not minimize hazards . PPE allows a company to have its employees work in hazardous conditions .

[@DocumentNegativity]

Jimmy I need you to play with this live wire 60 feet in the air don't worry you get a helmet. We pride ourselves in our worker pensions so far we haven't paid out once.

[@DavidMcbrady]

Bunch of Communists is why.

[@spaghetti9845]

always make sure when you are making a safety video to have the most boring monotone person to narrate.

[@gavinspearritt4910]

this would be far more impressive if they had used something more anolagise with a human skull, a watermellon really i was a site safety ex this demonstration is a false analogy

[@iceman7975]

I don't think a water melon is a good skull analogue. The hard hats seen tough. Pity all those water melons went to waste. Nations play with food whilst others starve. Sad.

[@tonytattletaleliano956]

relax it was thrown into natural area so hungry animals or plants will have it

[@ianbowles5839]

False. Starvation has been virtually eliminated in the world. The very few exceptions to this general truth are attributed to man made causes, specifically war. Investment in civil infrastructure in developing nations has been the primary reason starvation or famine no longer exist.

[@akinofue]

@@ianbowles5839 You should visit Sudan.

[@Look_What_I_Did]

I used to work there. Impossible to get anything done in a timely fashion. Lots of standing around.

[@DocumentNegativity]

So many broken bits of watermelon everywhere. Could hardly find any tools with the amount of melon they have scattered around.

[@yafois988]

Neck disc compression injury would be enough to wreck a person..

[@bonotheist]

I bet most of these guys are tigers in bed...

[@proletariennenaturiste]

I want to see with slightly heavier objects.

[@proletariennenaturiste]

Why don't hard hats have chin straps like military helmets so they don't get knocked off?