According to OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration), federal law requires construction employees working in areas where there is a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock or burns shall be protected by protective helmets.Any job site where you have cranes and equipment, things can move, things get dropped, shifted. It's the reason why we require the hard hats.
Standing five stories high in a crane at a South Boston construction site, two construction workers working on the exterior of a new Boston health center worked without wearing hard hats. Another worker, walking outdoors at the construction site below, was also not wearing a protective helmet. On another day, several workers painting and doing other jobs inside the building were not wearing hard hats.
Why doesn't the contractor or foreman demand that the workers protect themselves with hard hats?
A photographer and reporter were given hard hats. Debris was swirling in the air around the construction site during the media tour. The job superintendent managing the construction site asked the photographer not to photograph any workers who were not wearing hard hats.
It appears that the safety rules are lax or non-existent. Federal law states that hard hats are required to help prevent injury caused by impact and falling or flying objects. Head injuries accounted for 7.6 percent of nonfatal injuries to construction workers in Massachusetts in 2005.
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