New Colour-Coded System for Safety Helmets in Construction

The reign of the yellow hard hat on the UK’s highways and construction sites has come to an end. Leading construction industry body ‘BuildUK’, which represents contractors and trade associations, has devised a new safety helmet colour scheme.

Whilst Network Rail has its own specific requirements regarding safety helmet colours (white for general use or blue for inexperienced people and visitors) there are currently a number of different approaches to safety helmet colours in construction. This inconsistent approach is confusing and potentially dangerous, so the safety helmet colour scheme has been created in order to help reduce the dangers on construction sites, as people of different experience levels would be easier to distinguish.