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You still need a rule, but just don't be lazy and have a blanket rule. Instead of always have a hard hat, just say hard hats required if there are any objects on site withing 30 feet that are above 6' or something.
If a business doesn't buy hard hats because it only applies some of the time, then fine then when people aren't wearing hard hats when there are objects within 30 feet of working that's are higher than 6'.
My business works In one area for 30 minutes every 2 weeks that requires a hard hat. The rest of the time it isn't required. We still provide the hard hats. But expecting employees to wear them everywhere else is ridiculous.
Your response is exactly why blanket rules are needed. You're objecting about wearing safety equipment because you don't feel like you need it. Maybe sometimes you don't but allowing it to be a choice means that some moron is going to say they never need it. What is worse is that the one moron not being safe puts the rest of the team in danger. I used to work in the Oil and Gas industry and there were so many situations where someone getting injured meant someone else would have to extract them from the dangerous situation which then put the rescue team in danger. Personal choice isn't cool when you're then making everyone else's lives worse.
For 30 minutes every 2 weeks, how often do you inspect your hard hats? Do you know how long they are supposed to be in circulation before being removed? Do they have the appropriate documentation for inspection and replacement? I'm willing to bet that with such a small amount of use none of that is a thing for you and your team. Hard hats wear out due to sun and temperature exposure long before they actually "look worn out". I'd see all of the guys on the pipelines and wells have hard hats and flame retardant clothes replaced on a regular bases and then we'd have the guys who came in the service the water tanks that were run by a 3rd party contractor who had all old equipment because we were their only client for the type of situation that actually needed PPE.
The more judgement based exceptions you put in the regulations, the less compliance you have, and the more "rules lawyers" on your crew wasting time and energy trying to talk their way around some edge case loophole.
And the more often people will take the lazy option, rather then the safe one.