The Most Exciting New Safety Solutions of 2021-2022: Head Protection

The Most Exciting New Safety Solutions of 2021-2022: Head Protection

 

Hello, everyone, I'm Tim from Ergodyne and I’m excited to share a couple of new products with you here today. 

I'll start with our recently launched 8945F(x) Universal Bump Cap Insert. These are an easy and cost effective way to turn your favorite piece of headwear into head protection. For this product, we've taken everything we learned from our extremely popular 8945 insert and improved upon it by adding a dramatically increased amount of ventilation for improved breathability and comfort. 

Next up, I'm very excited to talk with you about Mips. Mips is probably the most important advancement in head protection in recent years, and we've incorporated it into our safety helmets to provide improved protection against a wider variety of impacts. A lot of folks don't realize that our current standards are focused on direct, linear impacts to the shell. Whereas, in the real world, many impacts are actually off center or oblique which, when they occur, causes rotational motion. Rotational energy, when transmitted to the brain, can cause injury. What Mips does is work to mitigate the transmission of that rotational energy by enabling the helmet shell to rotate slightly during impact, improving protection.

 Safety helmets with Mips technology will be available in October, model numbers 8974 and 8975.