I'm no safety engineer... but wouldn't the contoured top take some glancing blows, and rather than deflecting off the side of the head, convert then into direct hits on top of the head?

Like, isn't this basically a concussion scoop?

Wouldn't the stiff wide brim convert hits that previously would have missed your head into neck tortion or compression?

Yeah, if someone actually wanted to make this a good product then it'd be a regular hard hat with a fabric or leather cowboy hat over the top.

Possibly not for much longer. I see those stupid cowboy hat hard hats worn by GCs on occasion, but more and more I’ve seen a push by safety for Type II, side impact rated, hard hats. Pretty soon everyone’s might need to use the rock climbing looking hard hats with the chin strap.

Yeah, I could see the brim being useful for shielding from the sun, but would probably want to use a shape like a pith helmet instead:

That way the brim might actually even offer useful protection, although should still test that it's not dangerous when you fall off a roof or whatever. Could probably just make the brim out of cloth in that case, though.

Brim ish to prodect da sholdah /s

From wearing regular ones (okay many years ago working in wood sort of mills/production but not long either) I'm not sure the divot would make much a difference if proper clearance from sides to the inside harness, though guess may force impact in a way not intended for proper safety gear.

Still doesn't seem quite right to me, cause you wouldn't want your head knocked to a side if the brim was hit.

Probably a reason they were never designed in that way.

Fortunately

I think a jaunty feather would be nice.

So you can see the shit falling on your head?