Spent $150 on a new hard hat with a built-in headset and it saved my bacon last Tuesday

We were setting steel on a tight site downtown and the wind picked up out of nowhere. The foreman's voice came through my headset clear as day telling me to hold my load, but the guy on the ground with hand signals couldn't hear a thing over the noise. That split-second warning kept everything safe. I almost didn't buy it because it seemed like a fancy extra. What's the one piece of gear you bought that you didn't think you needed but now swear by?

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haydeng4717d ago

Actually, that's a safety thing. The headset in your hard hat is probably not OSHA approved. Might want to check that before your foreman does.

pat_schmidt7117d agoMost Upvoted

OSHA's got bigger fish to fry than a guy's earbuds. Seen plenty of crews with them on site and no one bats an eye. As long as you can still hear a backup alarm or a shout, it's probably fine.

amy_murphy8517d ago

What did your site safety guy say about it? Mine made me swap my earbuds for those bone conduction headphones that sit in front of your ears. They're not perfect, but I can hear my surroundings and my foreman stopped writing me up.