Responsibilities

Headteachers and Managers will, wherever there is a Foreseeable Risk of Head Injury:

• Provide employees with suitable head protection;
• Maintain and replace it whenever necessary;
• Ensure that employees wear head protection.

4.2 Employees will

• Wear head protection when instructed to do so by their employer;
• Comply with rules made by the person in control of a site;
• Take reasonable care of any head protection;
• Report the loss of or any obvious defect in the head protection.

4.3 Contractors (including self-employed persons) will

• Provide themselves with suitable head protection;
• Maintain and replace the head protection whenever necessary;
• Wear head protection when directed to do so by a person in control, or in order to comply with rules made by the person in control of a site.

The person in control of a site can make rules governing when and where head protection should be worn.

Employers, self-employed, or employees, for example, foremen who have control over other construction workers must ensure those workers wear head protection whenever there is a risk of head injury.

Under the Construction Head Protection Regulations, Sikhs wearing turbans are exempted from wearing head protection.