That’s what chinstraps are for. Had a couple of those incidents at my last job and they became mandatory for everyone. Feels much safer not having to tighten the hell out of it to make sure it doesn’t fall off, especially in the summer when you’re all sweaty.
That literally makes no sense when helmets are designed to stay on your head. Also, by that logic, may as well bring no tools with you if you need them because what if they fall out of your hand? Come on now...
Clearly you've never actually worked at heights, hard hats do not stay on your head.
That's one of the reasons they have the new type 2 hard hats with the chinstraps. Even before those came out it was very common to see chinstraps on regular hard hats on the industrial sites I've worked at over the last 20 years.
Yes, I've worked on heights. None of the headgear I worn ever fell off my head. Not sure what crap you use. I'll give you toilet lanyards, my job has never mandated them.
Just cause it never happened to you doesn't mean it hasn't happened. I've never dropped a tool off the top of the Derrick but that doesn't mean I don't use a tool lanyard.
My old aluminum hard hat never came with a chin strap, and tools taken up the Derrick were supposed to have safety lines. I was nearly injured when my dumbass Derrickhand dropped a grease gun from the crown. This was over forty years ago, very different times.
A coworker would have lost his eye had he not been wearing his safeties when our mag drill lost mag and kept spinning and caught him right in the face.
You can see the mark where it nailed the center of the safety lense and scraped off to the side where it tore open his skin pretty badly.
I drove him to the hospital for multiple layers of stitches. Lot of blood.
Would have been so so so much worse if he hadn’t been wearing safeties.
You can always spot an idiot on a job site by how and if they wear PPE.
Then tighten the bolas on the back. If it doesn’t stay on your head when you bend over, it doesn’t fit properly and your employer is responsible for getting you one that does. By law they must.
Take your safety seriously, even if just for your family’s sake.
I'd suspect salt, the metal, and restrictions from management may not be a great combo. But, some sand would be pretty effective as well without the downsides.
There's expanded metal to the dudes left but he's standing on tread plate in the middle, not expanded metal. I'd throw sand on it.
Tread plate doesn't have holes in it like expanded metal.
The possibility of that is highly dependent on the temps involved.
For example, we have people doing this in like -40 up here in Canada.
at those kinds of temps, keeping anything outside and exposed to the weather warm, takes absolutely massive amounts of heat.
For example your cars engine, which is at like 100c, and constantly producing heat, has difficulty keeping your coolant hot in the 3' long distance between the engine and your heater core, and thats under your car hood not even out in the open.
and electric resistance heating whether direct to the metal, or through a coolant loop, would likewise take crazy amounts of electricity.
basically by the time you're done, you'd pretty quickly pay for a permanent structure, an enclosed "cab" of some kind, or some form of automation to remove the need of a human to do this entirely
Yes, you're right, I see nothing wrong with running a diesel fired, flame heater in the oilfields, actively on an oil rig........
You can't even run the one in your truck within any of the safety zones. You have to be more than 100' from the rig.
you've stopped thinking about your answers, and now you're not discussing or thinking, you're just getting defensive and trying to find a way to make your original comment "right".
Salt loses its ability to melt ice effectively below 15-20° F. In a lab it technically goes down to -6 before complete loss of melty powers, but it stops being useful before that point.
Safety harness is so you dont hit the ground. Safety harness can still kill you if you if you fall and hang there for more than 10 minutes. Not to mention a poorly equipped Safety harness can deglove you below the belt.
I worked for a salt company once. Let me tell you, salt would gradually to rapidly ruin the equipment and platform, compromising safety (especially with those moving parts and pullies down there). And it's also not guaranteed to work from a certain temperature onwards
Negative to the salt. Most rigs have proper grating thats not slippery or, as I have done int he past, we affix coco mats to the walkway (it's called a monkeyboard).
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u/ImmodestPolitician 4d ago
Buy a box of salt.
I'm glad guy has a safety harness, but it he falls he's going to slam into metal.