When it comes to personal protective equipment (PPE), hard hats are sometimes seen as a box-ticking exercise. However, it is important to provide workers with appropriate PPE for their specific ...

The first hard hat, produced by a WWI doughboy for the mining industry, came out in 1919. That inventor's great granddaughter explains how this PPE revolutionized industrial work. Luckily for ...

Hard hats are available with varying levels of protection: Type I is the most common type of head protection. Type I protects the top of the head from impact. Type II protects the top and sides of the ...

Almost half of those injuries occurred when workers came in contact with an object or equipment while about 20% were caused by slips, trips and falls. Dating back to the 1960s, traditional hard hats ...