Some of those are legit OSHA compliant.

Possibly not for much longer. I see those stupid cowboy hat hard hats worn by GCs on occasion, but more and more I’ve seen a push by safety for Type II, side impact rated, hard hats. Pretty soon everyone’s might need to use the rock climbing looking hard hats with the chin strap.

M’Safety.

Needs a high-vis (and stylish) stripe.

Better than being a vegetable, I suppose.

The shape of a helmet is important for how it handles shocks and impacts. I doubt this thing is as protective as a similarly heavy helmet with a plain old bowl shape.

Isn’t that what they use in Europe?

I think the entire thing is plastic. The photos show how shiny the rim is

Looking at the inside picture you can see the inside contours of the Stetson top, I think we're looking at a straight up hat shaped helmet.

Yea looks like it everytime I see people working

You can also get these in smoke tinted transparent. Not sure why you would want to though.

Dude, they are OSHA compliant
https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=cowboy+had+hard+hat

So you can see the shit falling on your head?

unisex

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I think a jaunty feather would be nice.

I'm no safety engineer... but wouldn't the contoured top take some glancing blows, and rather than deflecting off the side of the head, convert then into direct hits on top of the head?

Like, isn't this basically a concussion scoop?

Wouldn't the stiff wide brim convert hits that previously would have missed your head into neck tortion or compression?

so a fire helmet? looks like a cairns with a crush on the top lol.

unfortunately most sites ive worked on outright ban these. either on the "ppe required" sign on the fencing/gates outside, or mentioned in some sort of orientation.

I mean, are we talking carrot here or some kind of bullshit brassica?

Not sure how bad it would be in practice, but the divot on the top of this hat seems like it might funnel things that would have glanced off a standard hardhat into a solid impact at the top of the head instead. And the brim could likewise be problematic.

Makes sense, working out in the sun

Because a Chinese reseller on Amazon says so! Must be true!

The main problem is you can't tell at a glance that it's a safety helmet. Everyone on site is drilled to report safety risks like wearing noncompliant headgear to foreman / manager / whatever. It causes confusion having to explain its actually compliant to a safety inspector

Just wear the ugly hat; it's construction, not a catwalk

PO-TAY-TOES

The brim could cause an issue. Imagine two items falling in rapid succession. With a bowl helmet the first one glances off, second one hits and you’re protected.

Now with the cowboy hat, first one hits the brim and flips the hat off your head. Second one…. Yeah, that’s gonna suck.

In other news, the safety manager has hired two new people to manually check the heatwave of every special jackass on the worksite, instead of just glancing at it.

Yeah, I could see the brim being useful for shielding from the sun, but would probably want to use a shape like a pith helmet instead:

That way the brim might actually even offer useful protection, although should still test that it's not dangerous when you fall off a roof or whatever. Could probably just make the brim out of cloth in that case, though.

But, what if there is a catwalk on the construction site and they just want to do a little turn on it?

Western-style hardhats have been a thing since the 90's.

Ah I see, my screen was rather dark last night.

If they were too sexy with the cowboy safety hat, they'll be sexy enough with the hard hat.

Reminds me of how the fantasy medieval plate armor with boob cups would direct the blow directly into the sternum and kill the wearer.

Yep. Firefighting helmets have a strap for that reason.

I think that it'd be way better to loosely attach a thin, lightweight, cardboard or thin plastic brim to a 'real' hardhat than use one of the faux cowboy hats.

Brim ish to prodect da sholdah /s

Yeah, if someone actually wanted to make this a good product then it'd be a regular hard hat with a fabric or leather cowboy hat over the top.

I think it’ll come down to whether or not he wears a shirt.

You keep using that word

Fortunately

From wearing regular ones (okay many years ago working in wood sort of mills/production but not long either) I'm not sure the divot would make much a difference if proper clearance from sides to the inside harness, though guess may force impact in a way not intended for proper safety gear.

Still doesn't seem quite right to me, cause you wouldn't want your head knocked to a side if the brim was hit.

Probably a reason they were never designed in that way.

Just got done with a hurricane in NW Florida. Line guys from all over the US were wearing similar helmets.

They just make sense. Like if you’re just wearing a standard type 1 hard hat, and you fall, your hard hat isn’t staying on your head. Plus type 2 are side impact rated, which is the main feature.

First piece of debris knocks the helmet off hitting the brim, second goes for the coup de grace

And because you said so it mustn't be true? Yeah, right, OK Carnak the Magnificent... you have spoken. 🥱🙄

As someone who does have one at work, they are all plastic and Fully ANSI rated. I don't wear it, mostly because it's ridiculously impractical for tight quarters, but also the opening for your head is a fixed size, and my head is just a little too big, so it doesn't really fit me that well. Still, it's funny to whip out on occassion