Hard hats vs. safety helmets: Which is best?

Chris Tidy

04 March 2024

PPE specialist Chris Tidy weighs up the pros and cons of hard hats relative to construction safety helmets.

News last year that the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is replacing the traditional hard hats used by its employees with safety helmets ended up being one of constructionbriefing.com’s most-read stories of 2023.

Explaining its decision, OSHA said it wanted to ensure its employees were…

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