What colour is your hard hat?

People on job sites are picky about their hard hats.

Every site we’ve been on with Behind the Scenes, I’ve found that there’s a whole thing with hard hats. What colour of hat you wear is important. Though we’ve only been to a few so far, I’ve been assured that this trend will continue.

You don’t merely pick a helmet colour. These are assigned based on specific criteria.

Every site has the ordinary kind of helmet. These are for essentially competent workers who don’t really play a specialized role. They don’t necessarily denote skill nor elevated status. They are for the regular every day workers.

Wear a regular every day workers hard hat and you won’t stand out. You won’t attract attention. You get to be part of the crowd. People in these groups don’t compete with other helmet class for status. They do it with themselves. Their metrics frequently are success based, around how much, or virtue based around how consistent, how on time or how helpful.

Woe be to those who are lazy, late and …