Many employees work in hazardous situations, exposed to risks where they could injure a very important part of their bodies: their heads. For instance, employees working in a warehouse with items ...

You're an industrial safety professional. You encourage using the right PPE. You know the value of protecting workers from injury — head to toe. Think about this for a minute: the head is about ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a Trade Release on December 11, 2023, announcing that its employees will now wear safety helmets instead of hard hats on inspection ...

Type II hard hats are part of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z89.1 classification system, which categorizes head protection into different types based on their design and protective ...

It is critical that construction workers be equipped with state-of-the art head protection. Designed to provide better and more comprehensive impact protection, Type 2 safety helmets have become ...

OSHA has very specific guidelines to protect workers from head injuries. Because of how often head protection is required, workers should take extra precautions to ensure their hard hat is taken care ...

In the high-stakes environments of hydropower plants and active construction sites, safety is not optional. By ...

Luckily for industrial workers everywhere, Lt. Edward Wheatley Bullard of the U.S. Cavalry climbed out of the French trenches with an idea that would spark the industrial safety movement: the hard hat ...

Millions of workers wear hard hats every day on their job sites. Have you ever wondered where the hard hat comes from? It so happens that the hard hat is celebrating 100 years this year. Today, the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The traditional hard hat used by the construction industry for decades is being replaced by modern safety helmets. The Boldt Company made the switch for its 1,500 employees in January ...