The Sikhs have played a vital role in building a diverse and prosperous Canada and continue to contribute on all levels.  Over the past few decades, members of the Sikh community who wear turbans have encountered difficulties in their workplaces with respect to wearing hard hats instead of their turbans.  This is contrary to the tenets of the Sikh religion.  Sikhs have worked at all work places with their turbans in hard hat areas in the USA since 1975 and UK since 1989 (United State Department of Labor status field momorandum #75-11 dated February 4th 1975 and UK Labour Law de-regulation bill).

The Sikh community would like to request you and your government to allow a person who practices the Sikh religion, has unshorn hair and habitually wears a turban to be exempt from wearing a hard hat at their workplace.