When do you remove hardhat?

If my feet are on the ground, my hat is on.

Its funny because I have been doing it long enough that I feel naked without when we are working.
 
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The term "arboricultural operations" is vague and open to interpretation.

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Not really, read the first three points in the Z133:


AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD FOR ARBORICULTURAL OPERATIONS: SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
1 GENERAL
1.1. Scope This standard contains arboriculture* safety requirements for pruning, repairing, maintaining, and removing trees; cutting brush; and for using equipment in such operations. Terms specific to the safe practice of arboriculture appear in boldface type at first use and are defined in Annex A, the glossary.
1.2 Purpose The purpose of this standard is to provide safety criteria for arborists and other workers engaged in arboricultural operations. It is intended as a guide to federal, state, and local authorities in drafting their regulations and may be adopted in whole or in part.
1.3 Application
This standard is intended to apply to all employers engaged in the business, trade, or performance of arboriculture; this includes tree pruning, repairing, maintaining, removal, brush cutting, or pest and soil management who hire one or more persons to perform such work. This standard serves as a reference for safety requirements for those engaged in pruning, repairing, maintaining, or removing trees, cutting brush, or performing pest and soil management. This standard may require situational modifications in response to personnel emergencies and is not intended to limit the options available to emergency responders.

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That seems pretty clear.
 
On campus it is on when working overhead or with machinery, and after hours work doing my gig it is truck to truck. Watched the contractor who hired me walk into a low hanging Beech branch look around to see me tapping my hard hat on my head.
 
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The term "arboricultural operations" is vague and open to interpretation.

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Not really, read the first three points in the Z133:


AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD FOR ARBORICULTURAL OPERATIONS: SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
1 GENERAL
1.1. Scope This standard contains arboriculture* safety requirements for pruning, repairing, maintaining, and removing trees; cutting brush; and for using equipment in such operations. Terms specific to the safe practice of arboriculture appear in boldface type at first use and are defined in Annex A, the glossary.
1.2 Purpose The purpose of this standard is to provide safety criteria for arborists and other workers engaged in arboricultural operations. It is intended as a guide to federal, state, and local authorities in drafting their regulations and may be adopted in whole or in part.
1.3 Application
This standard is intended to apply to all employers engaged in the business, trade, or performance of arboriculture; this includes tree pruning, repairing, maintaining, removal, brush cutting, or pest and soil management who hire one or more persons to perform such work. This standard serves as a reference for safety requirements for those engaged in pruning, repairing, maintaining, or removing trees, cutting brush, or performing pest and soil management. This standard may require situational modifications in response to personnel emergencies and is not intended to limit the options available to emergency responders.

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That seems pretty clear.

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Really? Tree work entails so much more than,

pruning, repairing, maintaining, and removing trees; cutting brush; and for using equipment in such operations.
So any other tasks, like raking or shrub pruning could be considered exempt. What about stump grinding? Is that considered tree removal? If so it should say so.

I wear my PPE all the time, but honestly the entire Z is full of loop holes, which are subject to individual interpretation. The standards are gray, not black and white. The entire Z is written that way. People know this and interpret the standards to fit their particular needs for the particular task at hand.
 
You will find the evidence to support whatever you believe....

Instead of reading the Z to find loopholes how about reading it to get the gist and then just aspiring to do better than the minimum. That is more impressive to both employees and clients.
 
I understand the gist and follow closely. I don't look for loop holes, but you can't miss them when it is full of them. The last thing I want is more regulation, my only point was that the z is vague in many areas and people will intrepret to suit their needs.
 
That's the unfortunate reality. What people don't seem to get is it is in their best interest. It's like wearing a seatbelt, you either commit to doing it all the time no exceptions or you don't. It really amounts to no hassle at all and having been a FT driver for a living I learned to get used to it. Now that I'm an arborist I've done the same here.
 
We don't wear it for landscape work or pruning shrubs. Sometimes we will take it off for clean up. Lately, we are because it's so hot here right now.

Also, for small trees where it's all hand pruning stuff we don't wear one.
 
Actually I was going to post something about this today...was thinking the same thing as I did some small pruning on trees today that were less than 10 inches in diameter and pruning for side walk clearance.

I had mine on because i am a professional and an ISA Certified Arborist and an associates degree holder as an Urban Forestry Technician

I wear mine as others have said truck to truck no matter how hot it is i have mine on never take it off..doing shrubs as others have talked about i would wear mine...as tom has said it sets the standard and sets you apart from others
 
Johnnie....if you have suggestions for making the Z better the committee is obligated to read the suggestions and act on them. Before each Z meeting all of the committee members get an email with input. We read them and then act on them at the meeting.

If you feel like there are too many loosey goosey loopholes I'd like to hear what they are. Please sight the numeric section and explain what you see is wrong and include a suggestion on how it could be better.

The Z attempts to set some limits of what is allowed. It's not meant as a strict set of regulations. We struggle a LOT trying to make the intent easy to implement.

The way to understand the Z is that it is descriptive not prescriptive. Each employer is allowed latitude to find solutions to some problems.
 
when planting i will not wear it unless i am on the loader. other than that i will take it off if i go to the truck but leave the helmet outside any workzone and put if back on once ive cooled down and gotten a drink. thats about all i take mine off. then again i have a Komfy Kask.
 
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