Maybe a silly question, but do the DIY hard hats meet up to the same standards that ones in use on building sites, for instance? I ask, because I will be visiting (officially) a church which has been redundant and not maintained for 20 years, which is dangerous in parts
Cheers
JW
Can you not just rely on faith?
Real hard hats are only a few quid from toolsatan
NT
OK - thanks - so I guess the ones in B&Q at £6 probably are 'real ones' then? They have CE EN 397 listed in the details.
Not likely. The congregation couldn't manage that either! ;-)
I guess it depends on your DIY skills when you make the hat?
You can buy a "real" builders hard hat for £2.64 (toolstation) so I wouldn't bother with DIY.
You can even buy a hard cap if you want to look odd.
Put everything forward and trust in the lord! Even a cheap hard hat will protect you from light impact. Heavier impact will more likely break your neck anyway
Nobody should be selling non CE marked PPE in the UK. Just don't buy a used one from eBay or borrow one from a dodgy geezer.
If you're not used to wearing one, then a chinstrap can save embarrassment.
Three quid in Screwfix.
Never realised there was a pecking order for hat colours!
Like the fire service then.
The guy with the white hat on thinks that they are in charge of everyone else:-)
Me neither - especially since mine, which I picked up on a beach in Scotland, is white...
On some jobs its possible to be all three - what colour to wear then!
NT
Stripey of course!
Can you get rainbow ones for handymen?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John Rumm saying something like:
Yep. I've noticed the white hat wearers do f*ck all.
In message , John Whitworth writes
Have you no faith ?
Repeat after me
"Oh deity in whom we trust ..."
Yes, for gay handymen.
At one time red hard hats ("safety helmets") were 'de rigeur'.
In message , Frank Erskine writes
M E D way, M E D way you can build a good deck, you can swear like f*ck
I'll stop at this point
Nor me. As management in an Electricity Board, I got the same orange hat as everyone else.
Colin Bignell
Tartan.
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