Charlie Apps meets Chris Tidy Director STCC helmet expert and founder of hard hat awareness week

Charlie Apps meets Chris Tidy who is the Founder of Hard Hat Awareness Week. In this interview Chris explains why a proper hard hat is important and vital protection.Do you wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle or bicycle? Do you wear a hard hat at work?In many countries wearing a helmet at work in certain jobs is compulsory under health and safety at work legislation, but it's not mandatory for riding a motorbike home from work. So, someone can spend all day wearing a hard hat at work, leave the hard hat in their locker, and then jump on their motorbike that might be capable of 130mph without a helmet!"In 2024, an estimated 30,000 people died in India due to road accidents while riding two-wheelers, with a significant portion of these deaths occurring among those not wearing helmets."In the interview Chris Tidy explains why a proper hard hat is important and vital protection, across all field of activity where head injury is a possibility, both in work and leisure.Chris also discusses the amazing life of Hugh Cairns who led the growth of helmet use for motorcycle despatch riders during the Second World War.Now the standards like EN397, EN12492, ISO 3873 offer a guarantee of a certain level of head protection in an accident. That is if you wear the helmet!