Pink hard hats were designated for truck drivers at a facility to stop hats from disappearing, and it worked. This inspired a color-coded hard hat system for the entire organization to easily identify roles and certifications at a glance, like identifying who was forklift certified. The system improved visibility of information and directed behavior through simple visual cues of hat color.

1. How Can Color Direct Behavior?
In this facility everyone was
required to wear a hard outside
the office area.

2. Pink is all the rage!
When deliveries were made
the truck drivers were
always walking off the hard
hats. They were costly and
were always having to be
replaced.
Pink hats were designated
specifically for truck drivers
then suddenly hats stopped
disappearing.
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3. Display What is Required
The Pink Hat idea inspired the Safety
Manager to create a hard hat color-
coded system for the entire
organization.
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4. Color can direct behavior!
In addition to making sure that hard hats did not vanish,
they company added the forklift certification to the hat of
each employee as necessary. Information became visible
at a glance.
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