Full brim hard hats

[mtt.tr]

That lid is long past it's sell by date

Haha well spotted

 

[addjunkie]

You have my sypathy, I spend 3 months a year like a cooked prawn and the rest like a sick gost, The top is still red but the beard is white like my bum. I spent almost all my working life at sea, mostly deep sea fishing and oil rig safety/supply last 16 years skipper.
What a contrast in safety rules and regs between them both, fishing not enough and oil industry far over the top in my opinion to the point you need 4 to do a 1 man job. I once went 2nd mate on a oil rig safety vessel, it was smallish to do month on month off and the hydraulic oil tank was not big enough to hold all the oil we needed for a trip so we had 10 45gallon drums lashed to the rails on the small makeshift helipad. About 20 days into the trip we hit some very bad weather NW of shetlandsand one of the barrils started to work loose and eventualld did, rolling from side to side it started bashing the fixed ones an punctured at least 1, It was my watch and I told the watchmate to go call the skipper and left the otherone on the wheel(autopilot couldn't cope) and i went out on the deck with some lashings, using the roll of the ship i managed to get everything battened down and only 1 drum busted.
When i got back to the bridge the skipper put me on report, no wet gear, no life jacket, no hard hat, no safety harness,(lines were rigged to clip onto) the full 9 yards in the logbook and mentioned it in a daily message to HQ and said I would be docked a weeks pay.
We ended up doing 38 days instead of 30, and could only have done it because the oil was saved. When we signed of the log in front of the Captain and owner, the owner said sorry but had to dock me a weeks wages(to keep the skipper happy) and gave me an envelope with £500 in it and thanked me in a wisper. The next trip I went back first mate with a new skipper, that was about 30 odd years ago, 500 quid was a lot of money then.
Looking back I could have just let things happen and nothing would have been said, or rigged everything by the book and went on deck to tie up empty drums. I agree fully with safety gear but sometimes it hinders getting the job done and is not practical as an across the board set of rules and regs made up in a boatd room. Every ship/factiry/workplace should have its own set made accordingly.

sorry for the book, its nice to bring back memories when you get old.

I spent 9 years working North West of Shetland, it gets a bit bumpy up there on the water. Many years before that I was skint after my seconds ticket and did a month on a standby boat, it wasnt pleasent at all.

I see your now located at La Coruna, I spent a while there too, before my time in the Noth Atlantic, working on a new build up the road from you in El Ferrol, I used to have a flat in a small village called Pontdeume, nice part of the world, apart from the rain.

 

[jinjahbiscuit]

The round you neck band ones are as rare as hens teeth in my company only ever seen them on one ship and even then they only had one pair.

You can get them from RS Components.