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For the Phil Beer album, see Hard Hats.
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Industrial inspector wearing a thermoplastic hard hat in Cologne, Germany
A hard hat is a type of helmet predominantly used in workplace environments such as industrial or construction sites to protect the head from injury due to falling objects, impact with other objects, debris, rain, and electric shock. Suspension bands inside the helmet spread the helmet's weight and the force of any impact over the top of the head. A suspension also provides space of approximately 30 mm (1.2 inches) between the helmet's shell and the wearer's head, so that if an object strikes the shell, the impact is less likely to be transmitted directly to the skull. Some helmet shells have a mid-line reinforcement ridge to improve impact resistance. The rock climbing helmet fulfills a very similar role in a different context and has a very similar design.
A bump cap is a lightweight hard hat using a simplified suspension or padding and a chin strap. Bump caps are used where there is a possibility of scraping or bumping one's head on equipment or structure projections but are not sufficient to absorb large impacts, such as that from a tool dropped from several stories.
A hardhat is a type of helmet predominantly used in workplace environments such as industrial or construction sites to protect the head from injury due...
The HardHat Riot occurred on May 8, 1970, in New York City. It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers...
HardHat Area is the eighth studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released in 1993 through Polydor Records (Japan), JMS–Cream Records (Europe) and...
Mounted Police. Some hats have a protective function. As examples, the hardhat protects construction workers' heads from injury by falling objects, a...
The bowler hat, also known as a Coke hat, billycock, bob hat, bombín (Spanish) or derby (United States), is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown, originally...
A hardhat mounted mirror is a safety device attached to a hardhat that provides an increased field-of-view. Headgear mounted mirrors were first developed...
HardHat Mack is a platform game developed by Michael Abbot and Matthew Alexander for the Apple II which was published by Electronic Arts in 1983. Ports...
A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes...
This is a list of various kinds of hat, contemporary or traditional. Headgear has been common throughout the history of humanity, present on some of the...
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"HardHat and a Hammer" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released in May 2010 as the second single...
chemical, oil, and gas production. Best known for its Bakelite Skullgard hardhat, the company’s product line includes gas monitoring and detection instruments...
HardHats is the second studio album by Phil Beer, released in 1994, some 15–16 years after his previous solo album, Mandoline, though between those years...
recording dated May 5, 1971, documents that the planning phase of the HardHat Riot took place in the White House Oval Office. Colson is heard successfully...
actor, author, and comedian. He is known for the direct to video series “HardHat Harry”, and is the artistic director of Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop...
The cowboy hat is a high-crowned, wide-brimmed hat best known as the defining piece of attire for the North American cowboy. Today it is worn by many...
A homburg is a semi-formal hat of fur felt, characterized by a single dent running down the centre of the crown (called a "gutter crown"), a wide silk...
workers can colloquially be referred to as "hardhat workers" or "hardhats", as they often wear hardhats for safety while working on construction sites...
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A campaign hat, sometimes called campaign cover, is a broad-brimmed felt or straw hat, with a high crown, pinched symmetrically at the four corners. The...
A fedora (/fəˈdɔːrə/) is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown. It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and "pinched" near the front on...
HardHat Riot List of incidents of civil unrest in New York City List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States "Discard Date for Straw Hats Ignored...
A bucket hat (variations of which include the fisherman's hat, Irish country hat and session hat) is a hat with a narrow, downward-sloping brim. Typically...
protection. These may be carried on a head-band or clipped onto the sides of a hardhat, for use on construction sites. Some manufacturers combine headphones with...
A trilby is a narrow-brimmed type of hat. The trilby was once viewed as the rich man's favored hat; it is sometimes called the "brown trilby" in Britain...
The buntal hat is a traditional straw hat from the Philippines woven from fibers extracted from the petioles of buri palm leaves. It is traditionally worn...
necessities of underground mining operations. Most often it is worn on a hardhat in the form of a headlamp. Types 1813 Dr William Reid Clanny Exhibited...
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