One of the most exciting parts of building a custom home is visiting the job site. Each time you go you get to see your future home a little further along. Between taking in all of the change, you might notice that workers are wearing different colored hard hats. These colors are for more than aesthetics, and each one actually represents a different type of worker. The color-coded hard hats make it easy to identify who’s working on the job site at a time, so let’s break down what all of the different colors mean!
White
A white hard hat is for those in supervisory roles. This will be the color people like your home’s architect will wear. Other supervisory roles include managers, engineers, and foremen. Pretty much the top-ranked workers will be wearing white hard hats, so if you’re looking for the person in charge, look for a white hat!
Yellow
Yellow is a bold color that draws attention. That’s why workers who are using heavy machinery use this color hard hat. Yellow hard hats can also be used for general construction labor. Generally, this color signals construction so it’s best to stay out of the yellow hat workers’ way.
Orange
You probably won’t see an orange hard hat worker on your custom home site often. This color is typically used for road construction workers. Orange is a bright color, and similar to the orange traffic cones used during road construction, it makes sure that drivers can see them.
Green
Green hard hats are reserved for safety officers and inspectors. These are the people that come around and assess the custom home job site to ensure that everything is up to code. New hires and trainees can also use this color as well.
Brown
Brown might seem like a usual color for a hard hat, especially since it’s not a bold color. Be cautious around brown hard hat workers though. Workers who do any form of welding or other high-heat jobs use this color.
Blue
Blue hard hats are reserved for specialty workers. Electricians and carpenters most often wear this color. It can also be worn by interim workers and employees in technical advisory roles.
Red
Most job sites will never see a red hard hat if they’re lucky. Red hard hats are used by emergency workers such as firefighters, but employees with emergency training can also wear them.
Grey
When you visit your custom home site, chances are you’ll be given a grey hard hat. This color is reserved for site visitors, it signals that they are a non-worker and allows you to be easily identifiable.
Pink
Pink hard hats are becoming more popular as more women enter the field. They’re popular among female workers, but they can also be used as punishment for workers that forget their own hard hats.
Although we mentioned nine hard hat colors in total, if your custom home site goes smoothly you probably will not see all of these. For most home building, white, yellow, blue, and orange are the most used colors.
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