Yikes!

The head can be used as an extra appendage when your out of hands and feet too. It's right there might as well use it for something.
 
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We had one of our crew trip and fall back hitting his helmeted head on a low rock wall. Earlier I had told him to get a helmet on and wear it properly. It was a Petzl climbing helmet. Without that he would've at the least had a concussion. In our business there is never a time helmets are not needed.
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So you make your guys wear hard hats when digging a hole or cleaning up a job? If so i wouldn't work for you long. I wear my hardhat in the tree, doing ground work while overhead work is going on, working with equipment, or whenever common sense dictates; but for raking up, putting down mulch, deep root feeding, planting a tree, or the ten thousand other things we do as tree men then no i don't wear one. Tree Humper "Hey guy we are going to change the oil in the chip truck this morning don't forget to wear your hard hat as you might bump your head on the truck." I bet you wear a condom every time you have sex too? the other day i was so dangerous.... i cut the trailer down without chaps on.... whew that was a close one... oh man i wasn't wearing my hard hat either i am really lucky some bird didn't come by and shit on my head. LOL... lighten the fuck up. jeez When you do tree counts do you wear a hard hat? when you estimate the job do you wear a hard hat?....... when you take a dump in the chip box do you wear a hard hat?
 
Awesome! Further proof that we can take any thread and relate it back to pooping in a chip truck in just over one page.

I tend to side with Jeff here. If there's no one in a tree, why force guys to protect their head from falling objects? (Other than it being a generally good habit to get into wearing a lid.) Have to admit we did once have a guy blowing off a driveway with no hard hat, walking backwards, who caught his heel on a curb. He fell hard, cracked his head on the street, bled like a stuck pig, lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital. This would seem to militate in favor of wearing a hat at all times- BUT after the mandatory post- accident drug test it turned out he was chock full of opioids. So he's gone. And since then, we've had no more employees catastrophically injure themselves while using a blower. Weird.

As for the vid- Obviously they all should have been wearing lids. It is safer and just plain looks more professional, even if it's just for appearances since it was clearly being filmed for mass consumption. I say "just for appearances" because that was a BIG tree. They were dropping some serious pieces. The kind of pieces that, if they hit you, turn your noggin into Ragu whether you're wearing a hard hat or not. (I know, helmets are for the brush too...)
 
How about an approved full face? They don't hurt breathing or visibility that bad or add much weight and offer alot more protection. Some guys would like them.
 
looks like all the hack companies in my area,and why no crane?they could have been going home at lunchtime or started another large removal
 
Yes Jeff, you have a point. I was too broad in my use of "never". Our ear protection is on the helmets so if there is call for that then the helmet goes on. Partly its the getting into the habit, instead of deciding when it's going to be necessary. Too often with crews they start finding more reasons to not where it and then they're called into a situation where it is needed and then have to go get it. Yes, I'm a bit of a safety geek but I've witnessed enough accidents that were preventable had available protection been used, that's 2 deaths, brain damage, an amputation that ended a lucrative career future, a lifetime of medical issues and pain from an accident that ended a career, and add to that a hospital that was exclusively workplace accident victims. Guys missing limbs and forced to have to totally alter their lives only after years of painful surgeries and physiotherapy. Yeah, so a helmet on my head and those of the crew is a small discomfort that is accepted.

As for condoms, nah, I'm married and no chance of my wife conceiving. Oh, but there was a time I wished I did......
 
I have seen some dead MFers as well; although i don't think wearing or not wearing a hard hat would have made much difference.... The big idea with any safety gear is to have a safety mindset in the first place. All the gear in the world isn't going to do you much good without a safety mindset. The safety first mindset is the first step to becoming a professional, imo.
 
The lack of education I think is to blame in most cases of "unprofessionalism". I do sub work for a small outfit that is just that. Very little ppe, no formal training, ect. But my presence there goes along way. They see me being safe, using two hands on a saw, wearing ppe, taking extra precautions, and they respect that. This is the third year I've worked with them, and it's starting to rub off. Now if I could get them to stop topping trees...
 
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