Have you ever noticed that at a work site there are different colour of protective helmets all over the place. It will also be easy to notice that there are a lot of yellows, a few whites, red and blue.
Did you know that the difference in helmet colour is a system that identifies a worker's role on the site?

Without even ever knowing a person, a superior can call out a worker and assign him a task based on the colour of the helmet on the person's head, and the worker is willing to respond because of the helmet colour on the head of the one giving the instructions.
The helmet colour tells you when it is an instruction from your supervisor or a suggestion from an equal.

With this colour code in place, a worker can spot potential danger because an unauthorised person is using equipment or has walked into an area where they shouldn't, enhancing safety, communication, and compliance.

Local Helmet Code

• White Helmet:
  A white safety helmet at the site is reserved for the site managers. The engineer at the site and the site supervisors sometimes come with white helmets.
  When an instruction comes from a white helmet, you are expected to comply.

• Yellow:
  The workers with a yellow helmet are those responding to instructions. Generally, the labourers and earthmoving operators are those putting on yellow protective helmets.

• Blue:
  Skilled workers like carpenters, electricians and technical workers put on their blue helmets

• Green:
  The safety inspectors put on green, but the new workers, or probationary staff, also come with green helmets.

• Orange:
  Lifting operatives, banksmen, traffic marshals this group of workers come in orange helmets.

• Red:
  Give way to workers on red helmets when you see them charging; something is wrong in the direction they are running. This includes Fire marshals and emergency personnel

• Brown:
  Welders, workers with high heat applications are those putting on the brown helmets.

• Grey:
  Anyone with a grey helmet is a visitor to the site. The safety department kits then come in this colour and become their tour guide, which is why you often see green and grey together.

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