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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.😆🍅

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

You had me at washer

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

great demostrations, thank you for making this video!

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.

That one guy has a heck of a beard.

Dang hard hats actually are safe.

Many watermelons were harmed in the making of this video.

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

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

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

This gives me so much respect for hard hats 👍

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

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

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

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

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

your brain will be saved, but not your spine.

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

Thank you.

Sort, Set, Shine, Standardize, & Sustain

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.

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?

Hard hats save mels

He keeps saying PeePee 😂

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

What a waste of DELICIOUS WATERMELONS

ya lads having fun huh

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.

I didn’t hear anything about neck compression injuries

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

What protection does a turban give as religion trumps health and safety on uk building sites

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

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

Here is my watermelon + hard hat + 3.25t shackle video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n5yTp9ekxrDUhps.html The test result is the same, a hard hat protects against many dangers.

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

4:57 😎🍉🤣🤣

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

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

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

Hard Hats only work on melon heads..??

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

Ok but why do you hate melons so much?

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

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 ?????

Try it with a tree branch

Hard hats for not so hard heads.

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

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

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

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

Safety is so sweet. mmmmm

watermelons don't have skulls

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

So watermelons should not work

But I wanna die... 😢

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

I think she's allergic lol.

PPE

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

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so scary

Head ache!

Bunch of Communists is why.

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

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.

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

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

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

I want to see with slightly heavier objects.

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

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