Demolished wall collapses on man - GIF

[Frank S]

I've worked on sites with vests all around. It has the opposite effect. We don't pay attention to bright yellow after a while.

There is no replacement for proper training. And that is what all those bandaid ideas are there for in the first place. Hard hats and boots are essentials. But watching out for your fellow worker, come on!

In the past 50 years I doubt if I have ever owned more than a couple pairs of footwear which were not steel toed. I even had special steel toed combat boots I wore in the Army disguised as jump boots.
When my friend and I decided to do a joint venture in the project we are working on, I told him I had 1 rule in my shop that will be enforced no matter what. I didn't care if he showed up wearing sandles to work as long as they had steel toes. He said he wasn't going to wear boots of any kind, so he bought a pair of steel toed tennis shoes. When I was running construction sites I didn't force welders to wear hardhats under their helmets as long as there was no crane activity in the area where they were welding as long as they wore them when not welding. The added possibility of neck strain injuries from overhead welding outweighed the risks of head injuries