Best Safety Lights for Hard Hats

Best Safety Lights for Hard Hats?

What are the Best Safety Lights for Hard Hats? For the answer to this, one must first determine for what application. Is it for Flaggers, Tow Truck Driver Safety? Or ow about Graveyard Shift Workers? Is task-specific lighting required? Do you need to be visible at night to vehicles and mobile equipment? For visibility at night, then the SEEME-NOW Hard Hat Lights should be your first option.  Uniquely, having a white light shining forward and an amber /yellow facing the sides and rear, it’s easy to determine which way your facing. By the same token, a high visual vest uses a cross style or X pattern of reflective strips to show the direction a worker is facing.

LED Hard Hat Lights

For general tasks at night LED hard hat lights to prove the answer to Best Safety Lights for Hard Hats. Being seen from a 360° radius has numerous advantages. The most obvious one being you are seen from all directions. In addition, and previously mentioned, the direction your facing or walking is known to others by the two distinguishing colors. For example, operators of mobile equipment will know if your looking at them or not while they are moving.

Tow Truck Drivers 

As an ex tow truck driver, I have first-hand knowledge of the hazards of working at night. One of the biggest being you are just about always working around traffic and you need to be seen. Illustrated in an article by the Globe and Mail. To emphasize, even with a service call at night like a flat tire change, I never allowed the customer to stand right there. I would suggest they would be much safer waiting in my truck while I changed the tire. Equally important is the tow truck driver's safety. A driver-side flat will have you changing a tire on the side traffic is passing by.

Combination of PPE

Coupled with high vis PPE, a hard hat with LED lighting that is omnidirectional lets drivers see where you are. Furthermore, this is better than waiting for oncoming headlights to make your high vis vest reflect.

Flaggers/ Traffic Control Person

Being positioned at opposite ends of a construction zone could mean flaggers work alone and most likely in the dark while working at night. For the same reasons as a tow truck driver, flaggers need to be bright and very visible. The SEEME-NOW Hard Hat achieves this. Without these PPE hard hat lights, all you have for light is your wand. To say nothing of the fact High Visual clothing only works when light is reflected of the cloths by a vehicle’s headlights. Comparatively, it’s better to be well seen first by your PPE lights on your hard hat.

Commercial Vehicle Operator/ Truck Drivers

As a Commercial Vehicle Operator, has your job ever caused you to perform a task at night? Maybe strap down a load, or do a pre-trip inspection? What about in the wintertime, having to pull over and chain up? The tasks of a Commercial Vehicle Operator are vast. All of these are hard to do at night. Having a lighting system mounted to a hard hat that throws light in every direction would be more beneficial. Instead of holding a flashlight for most tasks, both hands are free now with plenty of light for your safety.      

Graveyard Shift Workers

Anybody who has ever worked at night knows that lighting is everything. From being able to see what you're doing to being safe and seen at night. As mentioned in the Hamilton Health Sciences, bring in a bright lamp is a good tip for working at night. Good advice if you’re in one spot all the time. Yet for most, some tasks will have you leave your light-up area. From a gas station attendant taking the garbage to a dumpster, tonight attendants cleaning a mall parking lot prior to next day, you need light.

Hands-Free

Carrying a flashlight occupies one hand. Like other occupations, be hands-free and still have light. A high vis hard hat with LED lights solves that problem. Now both hands are free to conduct your task, while still having your area around you brightly lit up. For graveyard shift workers, it's a much safer way to be. 

Head Lamps

Another style is headlamps. Designed for bright and directional light to shine on one specific point. With this in mind, these lights can render people momentarily blind if shined directly at them. For this reason, it is ill-advised for flaggers to use these at night. While doing work around other people, or vehicles and mobile equipment increases a potential hazard. As a matter of fact, if a directional light source were to blind an oncoming driver while your working an added hazard has just been created. This could cause them to lose their ability to navigate through the work zone without incident. For this and all the other reasons, the SAEE ME-NOW is the Best Safety Lights for Hard Hats.