Head Protection
Head protection is vital in workplaces where falling objects, impact risks, or electrical hazards are present. This section covers the essential information you need to know about safety helmets, hard hats, bump caps, and other protective head gear. Learn about the safety standards, industry-specific recommendations, and tips for maintaining your head protection to ensure maximum safety on the job.
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Hard Hat Colour Codes: What You Need to Know
As of January 2017, Build UK, who represents some of the UK’s biggest contractors and trade associations, has mandated hard hat colour codes. Excepting Network Rail workers, whose sites only permit white and blue safety helmets, all other construction sites – new and existing – will be expected to change their helmet colours according to […]
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Bump Caps or Hard Hats: What is the difference?
Head injuries are often serious and all too often life threatening. It is important, when working in hazardous industries, you and your employees are protected with some form of head protection such as a Hard Hat or a Bump Cap. Hard Hats are very different pieces of PPE from Bump Caps and they both perform […]
