Construction worker emoji meaning

The construction worker emoji is a pictograph of a person wearing a hard hat, a protective helmet worn on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects. The person is depicted as wearing a high-visibility vest, often orange or yellow, and is typically shown with a tool belt around their waist. They may be shown holding a tool, such as a hammer or screwdriver. The emoji can be used to represent any type of construction work or the people who do it.

The construction worker emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026L2/07257