Will wearing a hard hat with a welding mask eventually cause permanent baldness?

Hard can cause friction alopecia as well as pressure alopecia. Most of this is reversible when discontinued. If you remove the hat after work and on weekends there should be minimal effect. Placing a foam pad in the areas of pressure may help.Jeff Rapaport MD FAADRealself All-star

If your hat is putting pressure on certain areas of your head and tugging at your hair, it could result in permanent hair loss over time. I suggest you apply some padding to the areas where the hat is applying pressure to your scalp.

Hello and thank you for your question. I don’t think you have anything to worry about since you’ll only be on the job for 2 months. Even with long use of the hard hat as long as its off in the evenings and weekends you should be fine.

It truly depends on how much rubbing there is in that certain area. Since it sounds like it will be short term there shouldn’t be a problem. To be safe you might want to put some sort of padding in there anyway.

I have not examined a welding hat to determine any pressure points. I would image if there were pressure points you could pad them and therefore make is safer with regard to hair loss.