Head Protection
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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 […]
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PPE Regulations Buyers Should Know
The first PPE Directive was adopted over two decades ago in 1992 and later revised in 2002, meaning an update was long overdue. On the 12th February 2016, the new regulation was adopted in order for industries to stay on top of burgeoning technologies designed to help keep employees safe in the workplace. The directive […]