Navigating Head Protection: How to Provide Your Team with the Proper PPE

Well, in head protection in the industrial market, there's definitely a movement towards better head protection, thank goodness.

That started several years ago where folks are recognizing the risks associated with the work involved in the industrial marketplace.

And so some employers have moved towards providing their employees with better head protection.

And even OSHA, they came out with a safety and health bulletin more than two years ago And they've decided to move in to use an ANSI type 2 protection for all of their employees.

So it's a good thing.

There's still plenty of work to do.

There's still lots of opportunities for that.

But we're definitely seeing a trend in the industrial marketplace towards better head protection.

Sure.

Talk about more work to do.

What are some of those gaps that you see in the market now and the risks those can create for the workers who need that head protection?

Well, the annual that researchers estimated the total annual cost for all construction related injuries in the U.S. is more than eleven and a half billion in 2002.

And so of that, about four billion accounts for fatalities, while seven billion accounts for nonfatal injuries.

So mostly driven by, you know, case away from work.

So, you know, what they need to do is is.

Basically, you know, think of better protection and some of the risks that are associated with that risk, you know, like with rotational motion, you know, it's relatively unknown common traumatic or cause of traumatic brain injury here in the U.S., well, around the world.

And, you know, it's a result of angle impacts to the head.

You know, when a worker falls off a ladder and hits their head, it's most likely at an angle.

And that can induce rotation into their brain.

And so the brain is quite sensitive to that.

And so those impacts need to be recognized and protection, better protection for that opportunity.

You mentioned OSHA there and, you know, recently moving towards, you know, different types of head protection, better head protection.

I wonder if you could talk a little bit about, you know, regulations related to head protection as far as OSHA is concerned.

You know, what folks out there should need to know about, you know, complying with OSHA head protection standards.

Well, first of all, you know, OSHA requires the employers to do a risk assessment based on, you know, the risks that are involved with their employees related to head injuries.