Needed a new hat for work and stumbled on this one at screwfix on offer
https://www.screwfix.com/p/jsp-evolite- ... hite/8960f
Reduced from £46.99 to £29.99
Complies with both building site hard hat regulations but also mountaineering standards so offers falling object protection and fall impact protection via a polystyrene liner
Ok why a hard hat?????
High winds where stuff is coming off the roof/ tornado protection
Washing the windows via ladder
DIY where there's a risk of smacking your head or stuff falling on you
Civil unrest riots = flying bricks / bottles
They keep the rain off your head
Burglary = risk of being smacked over the head
Bugging out over rocky terrain slip and bang your head with a heavy Bob making your meeting the floor faster and harder
Likewise if on a bike will offer some protection
If all your family have a helmet of the same colour during a big evaluation makes it easier to see family members in a crowd (you can get reflective decals to suit )
You can also add things like built in safety glasses or if you use a chainsaw add visors and ear protectors
https://www.screwfix.com/p/jsp-evo3-evo ... _container
They even come in blank now which don't stand out unlike the usual builders yellow or white hat
https://www.screwfix.com/p/jsp-evo2-saf ... lack/6683t
And starting at under £5 for the most basic lid they won't bust the bank (more expensive usually = more features or protection,)
"universal" hard hat
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"universal" hard hat
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: "universal" hard hat
It's not a bad deal, I'm not really down with the health and safety police, common sense wins out and often having too many protective layers breeds inattention. If people are in an earthquake zone hard hats aren't a bad idea when aftershocks are an issue.
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Re: "universal" hard hat
Mate of my dad's life was saved by his hard hat a good few years ago on a power station someone dropped a big scaffold pole from a great height it dropped like a dart hit his lid which deflected it and it went down his back removing the skin exiting the backside of his overalls and staking him to the ground other than the grazed back and a stiff neck he walked away once the on site FLOR team had taken a pair of scissors to his overalls
In a shtf situation where emergency health care might be none existant or overwhelmed no-one will keep you safe other than yourself
And from my youth spent mountain biking and potholing concussion is better than a fractured skull I've seen both and helped load the latter into the back of the Yorkshire air ambulance
In a shtf situation where emergency health care might be none existant or overwhelmed no-one will keep you safe other than yourself
And from my youth spent mountain biking and potholing concussion is better than a fractured skull I've seen both and helped load the latter into the back of the Yorkshire air ambulance
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: "universal" hard hat
I carry something very similar to this in the car. Never know whan it'll come in handy.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ambulance-HE ... OjH2lkUPGg
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ambulance-HE ... OjH2lkUPGg