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I definitely agree about an up-to-date anti-tetanus jab.  When I worked with horses, it was impressed on me to have the anti-tet.  Cutting oneself on barbed wire and then scraping the wound on anything in a field could pick it up; or falling off a horse and grazing an arm or leg could do the same thing.  I used to be gung-ho about going around bare-headed, but then I read of a surveyor on a flat roof who banged his head on some steel structure he did not see; it made him dizzy, and fell off the roof and was killed by the drop.  You did not mention lights.  Today the LED head torches and hand held torches are so compact that there is no excuse not to use them, and carry spares - as well as plenty of spare batteries.  When a miner took me underground in Cornwall, it was in the days of the lead acid batteries with the heavy cable going from the battery on one's belt to the lamp on the helmet.  And carry a largish sharp knife; it can come in handy.  If going underground where one could get lost, a reel of thin cord unreeled along the route in could be useful for finding one's way out again.