Fred is vice president sales for Elvex Corporation in Bethel, Conn., USA. Fred has more than 30 years of experience in the environmental and industrial safety fields. His work in advancing worker safety has taken him to more than 30 countries on 6 continents. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.
Thanks to advances in safety, the hard hat has evolved over the decades. There have been many improvements in the last decade, but the story began almost 100 years ago.
Whenever practical, avoid the use of straps to create pressure against the worker’s face. The worker will often take the goggle off and allow it to hang around his neck to relieve the...
In addition to safety clothing, today it is required that electrical workers also use face protection that meets similar standards for protection against arc flash.
Every day an estimated 1,000 eye
injuries occur in American workplaces. Workers not wearing eye
protection and wearing the wrong kind of eye protection are the primary
causes of such injuries.