Running over the second week of June, Hard Hat Awareness Week was introduced to drive brain injury awareness through activities encouraging best practices around safety equipment.
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Head injuries remain one of the most serious and preventable risks on site. Even minor incidents can have life-changing consequences – for workers, families and communities.
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Wearing a hard hat, maintaining and storing it appropriately, and being more concussion and head injury aware are all vital to keeping hard hat wearers safe.
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We want to remind people about the importance of wearing hard hats and taking any impact on the head seriously.
Hard Hat Awareness Week exists to remind everyone that:
- Wearing the correct head protection saves lives
- Safety culture starts with everyday habits
- Awareness prevents avoidable injury
- Everybody deserves to go home safe
Even a minor brain injury can significantly impact, so take time to stop work, report the incident and recover fully before returning to work.
Get involved with the most recent activity on HHAW Linkedin page:Â linkedin.com/showcase/hard-hat-awareness-week
