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OSHA - Mon December 11, 2023
OSHA Announces Switch From Traditional Hard Hats to Safety Helmets
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that the agency is replacing traditional hard hats used by its employees with more modern safety helmets to protect them better when they are on inspection sites....
Studson - Wed August 16, 2023
STUDSON Helps Workers Combat Heat With Above-the-Neck Cooling Accessories
North American safety helmet innovator STUDSON released a chemical-free cooling helmet liner with a nape cover and a cooling towel designed to shield wearers from harmful sun rays and sweltering heat, simply activated with water....
Studson - Mon June 05, 2023
VIDEO: Studson Introduces ANSI Z89.1 Type II-Rated Full Brim Safety Helmet
In pursuit of creating the safest and most technologically advanced industrial safety helmet, North American safety helmet innovator Studson announced its new SHK-1 full-brim ANSI Type II safety helmet at ASSP Safety 2023....
Bullard - Wed April 13, 2022
Edward W. Bullard, Inventor of the Hard Hat, to Be Inducted Into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Bullard, the Kentucky-based manufacturer of personal protective equipment and systems, announced that Edward W. Bullard will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. E. W. is being recognized posthumously for his invention of the Hard Boiled hard hat, the first commercially available industrial head protection device, in 1919....
Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed July 14, 2021
Elevating Hard Hats — Protective Safety Helmets Deserve Respect, Care
Two major construction feats, the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge, marked the first times an employer mandated the use of hard hats on the job. The iconic head protection has come a long way since, and in 2017 a contractor first required helmets over hard hats because of the high rate of brain injuries and falls in the construction industry....
Katie Kohler – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed June 26, 2019
Hard Hats for Safety — and a Statement
What came first, the hard hat or the PPE laws?When E.W. Bullard returned home from World War I, he used his doughboy Army helmet to design protective headgear to improve industrial safety. Bullard sold carbide lamps and mining equipment to gold and copper miners who were wearing a soft derby, similar to a baseball cap....
Tressi L. Cordaro - Fri July 14, 2017
Construction Contractors Develop New Safety Helmets
Construction firms are developing new safety helmets designed to provide workers with better protection from falls and to curb fatal injuries, according to a report from Bloomberg BNA. According to government researchers, from 2003 to 2010, 2,210 fatal traumatic brain injuries (TBI) occurred in the construction industry, a rate of 2.6 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers....
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