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Brief of diving:
- Virginia Tech’s Helmet Lab has launched a first type Hard building rating system and helmets that reflect the rankings used for sports helmets.
- The findings, publicly shared on Monday, indicate that type II helmets or those with materials that absorb interior energy and protection for the top and sides of the head, better protect workers from serious injury. The results show that the change to type II reduces the risk, on average, 34% for the commotion related to the fall and 65% for the fracture of the skull.
- The research, which began in 2024 with the financing of industry partners, simulated the real -world collisions to try to evaluate accurately as a helmet or a hard hat protects a worker.
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Scott Greenhaus, a 40 -year -old building veteran, worked on the Pont of Florida International University In Miami when he collapsed in 2018.
“When we arrived at the place, we realized that their hard hats were all lying on the floor where the structure rested,” Greenhaus said in the statement on Monday. “So we looked at it and said, ‘Wow, we have to change the way you do business from here.’
Greenhaus, who co -founded the Hard Helsses Defense Group, believes that the Helmet Lab qualification system is a step in the right direction to keep workers safe and improve awareness around the headwaters.
Evaluate construction equipment differs Barry Miller, director of outreach of the helmet laboratory, told the study of football and bicycle helmets, Barry Miller, director of outreach of the helmet laboratory. The team tried to recreate the falls from 14 feet to 25 feet.
But the methodology is not as simple as dropping up personal protection equipment.
“Do your best to avoid hitting your head first,” Miller said. This meant that the falls from 14 feet to 25 feet create impacts similar to those that are set from 5 to 7.5 feet. It is much higher than the standard of the 2 -foot test industry, said Miller.
“I think we are better to simulate real -world accident scenarios,” he added.
The result is a ranking of one to five stars for 17 helmets, both type and type II. L’Escala includes qualifications for the planned incidence of fractures and shake -shakes compared to type 1. Miller says that the laboratory intends to continue to do more research on more type of head.
The rankings indicate a clear winner among the types of hard hats in effectiveness. Of the nine type II helmets on the list, only two do not have five stars: they have three. On the other hand, the highest type of type has four stars, but most have one or two stars.
Miller said that the helmet laboratory classification system is the first to definitely show a type of protection that is safer than another.
“It’s the first real data set to say something specific. Type II saves lives,” he said.
