This
happened to me recently while conducting an OSHA 10-hour construction class for
a group of professionals in the cellular communications industry. The group
consisted mostly of project managers, engineers, and construction managers
associated with one of the major wireless networks, who as part of their duties
would always set aside some time when they visited their cell tower sites to
evaluate the safety performance of workers. The topic I had just brought up was
head protection, no sooner had I put up my PowerPoint slide showing a hard hat
when almost every hand in the room shot up and people started shouting out
their questions. This topic had obviously struck a nerve with this particular
group.
It seems that some of the sub-contract workers
who climb their cell towers were not wearing traditional hard hats. One trainee
said he recently saw some of those workers wearing . . . . .