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 RW> Hard hats:  depends on the industry.  THe live performance
 RW> industry is a mixed bag.  BElieve it or not, you can see
 RW> riggers up in the steel overhead at these large arenas etc.
 RW> who must be belted securely, but the folks wandering around
 RW> below don't have lids.  Kathy and I with our remote truck
 RW> are an exception.  IF you're working below riggers and
 RW> other such folk and you work for us you *will* put a hard
 RW> hat on. YOur hard hat goes on, and your cell phone is *off*
 RW> until you're on break.  WE tell casual labor this.

 Several decades ago I was a supervisor in the head end of a
 cable TV company. One day a couple guys were working up on the
 357 foot tower that brought in the local area channels.

 I walked out the door and one of them dropped a wrench. I saw it
 hit the ground and went back in and put on my hard hat. I had
 been issued one early on, but never needed it until then.

 Before that I worked on Marine Electronics on the great lakes.
 Hardhats were required on deck. I boarded a boat late one day,
 when it was riding very high on the water as it was empty. By
 the time I got off the boat was loaded, riding low in the water,
 it was dark, very bright lights were shining on the boat as I
 climbed the ladder to get off, and the cables mooring the boat
 were near the deck. My hard hat let me know when I reached the
 cable.

 Oh, BTW, on the Great Lakes the freighters are boats. On the
 ocean those same boats would be ships. Just a matter of
 terminology convention. Just like submarines are boats, no
 matter how big they are.



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