Tag: Ratings
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Winter’s Coming: Understanding Outdoor Work Temperature Ratings
With winter closing in, employers and workers face a familiar problem: picking gear from a sea of products that all claim to be “warm.” But what do temperature ratings on thermal workwear really mean? Ergodyne is leaning into transparency to answer that question as it announces third-party tested temperature ratings on its full line of thermal…
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Helmet Lab Issues First Ratings for Construction Helmets
The 2018 collapse of a pedestrian bridge in Miami, Florida, served as a headgear wake-up call for Scott Greenhaus. A 40-plus-year veteran of the construction industry, Greenhaus was working with his team to install a post-tensioning system when the bridge collapsed. It killed five motorists and one team member and left the job’s superintendent with a…