OSHA Regs: Wearing A Hard Hat Backwards
Back in the days when we could be picky about being on a job a contractor called us to get some layout done. We had about 2 months of boundary work backing up but since my boss played golf with the engineer who we'd down the survey for on the route re-locate we'd got pulled off and sent there. First day on the job, not a piece of equipment in site we were laying out the clearing limits and a truck pulls up and without so much as a good morning the site super starts laying into us for not having hard hats on. Told him we didn't normaly carry hard hats (we were a boundary crew first) and I didn't have one that day but would have one on when we came back and there was some work going on. Super jumps in his truck, takes of without a word and comes flying back in 2 minutes with hard hats. Threw them out his window and said to put them on. Wrong tact with me. Later in the day we were loading up to leave and he pulls up and starts raising holy hell about the hard hats and tells me if we didn't want to were them not to show up on his job site again. I told him I'd have them on when something was over my head and to get bent. Showed up 1 week later with our hard hats and we were whering them but my I-man was wearing her's backward to keep from bumping the instrument. I'm 500 feet away but could tell he was upset, called over the radio as he was jumping in his truck and my I-man was crying from the ass reaming she'd just took. I told he to suck it up, there's no crying in surveying but don't worry I'd take care of it. Got back to the office, took and angle grinder to the stupid bill and took it off. Went back the next day and with permision from the boss, went into the field office and told that jack ass in no uncertain terms if he didn't like our hard hats we would just take off and get back to work I liked. He stuttered for a second then said to hold on and handed me a new hard hat and said he'd rather have her wear an unaltered one backwards than one that had been altered. I know that regulations must be followed but they should us their heads. I asked him if he was afraid a butter fly or milk weed pod was goind to hit us in the heads. We weren't even under tree limbs.
Not on a COE job
I heard of one Corps inspector that somehow interpreted the rules to mean that the contract survey crew has to give him their winch.
OSHA Regs: Wearing A Hard Hat Backwards
Had a job like that many years ago. We were on top of about 100 acres of kiln dust piled up a few hundred feet high from cement manufacturing. There was nothing between us and the sun but an occasional bird. No heavy equipment, no nothing. They wouldn't let us take a four-wheeler anywhere on the property either. That would have saved them many, many dollars, but it didn't matter.
Is it certified reversible, ie has the reverse donning icon/symbol?
Grow your hair out a bit and everything will be fine.....:-) 
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How I Won The War...
Same year, January 1990, young Seymour was sent 900 miles to a refinery near Steubenville by the new owners of the facility.
After 10 days, plant safety supervisor told me I had to shave my Paden-goat. He said it was required for "A skin-fit respirator", a plant-wide requirement. He put a Bic razor on the desk.
I deferred by saying a "skin-fit respirator" is outside the scope of my contract specs as written, and then called a principal in my firm, who called the friends who hired us, who put more $$ in the job.
The next morning, I got the message that said it was OK to shave and get back to work. :party:
OSHA Regs: Wearing A Hard Hat Backwards
Had a large company we were working for yell at a crew. , and write an incident report because they didn't have hard hats on, off site. They were doing static sessions. They were in a hidden culdesac so he must have been looking for us.
Thing is we had a couple of different clients in that section, and one moment we would be billing one, and the next, maybe billing the other.
Just like all the rules that remove "thinking", from the equation.
Not much different than the "ZERO tolerance", rules on knives & weapons in school, that include a toothpick as a sharp object that can cause harm or a girl giving her girlfriend a pill(for cramps) and getting expelled.
Eventually we'll be told how to breathe, when to laugh and when to cry, when to live and eventually when to die.
We'll all eventually succumb, become mindless slaves to our masters and do things because the rules require it ... sensibility aside.
AND... as always the impetus will be getting a little bit of our paid tax dollars back into our pockets so we can feed our families.
Taxation is tyrantical(sp)........
Like you allude, my instance was more of a power play than a safety issue.
I was going to post our exchange in the safety supervisor's office, but it ran too long for a sidetrack in this thread. Needless to say, this person had no intention of fitting us for respirators, which was a "Confined Space" requirement rather than a general one anyway.
Rather than let my ODD rule the day, I saw a disguised opportunity to make my team a nice chunk of extra $$ for the same job. I'm still smiling 23 1/2 years later. B-)