Head Protection
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Workplace Personal Protective Equipment - Your Ultimate Guide
Personal Protective Equipment generally goes by the acronym: PPE. It is the equipment that protects its users from health or safety risks. Most specifically, risks you would find in the workplace. The Ultimate Guide to PPE includes an explanation of all relevant PPE regulations, best practice advice for health and safety officers or those charged […]
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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 […]