Baseball Caps when driving forklifts Kia ora Sarah
As a company we operate, on a daily basis, at least 20 small forklifts (5 tonne or less), 4large forklifts (15 - 25 tonne), three side loaders and several other heavy machines. We are a large site, and we have a lot of in-house foot traffic, all carefully managed as safely as possible. All of these machines are completing possibly thousands of tasks a day and these vehicle movements will see them crisscross the paths of many other work vehicles, during their daily use. As far as I'm aware, as one of several H & S representatives within my company, although there have been many reported vehicle incidents, i am yet to see one incident that can be traced back to the wearing of a baseball cap and there are many that wear baseball caps while operating a work vehicle, on a daily basis.
We are predominantly a factory but some of our operations are performed outside as well and I have yet to see or hear about an incident that's relatable back to the wearing of a baseball cap, this isn't to say that this hasn't happened or that it wasn't notified in the details of the incident, but until we have an incident that can be related back to the wearing of a baseball cap, then I'm not convinced that banning them has any effect on the H & S of vehicle operations. Happy to be proven wrong though.