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Accelerometer; hard hat testing facility in slow motion. See the test here.
More than 160 million people worldwide will tune in to watch one of the most popular U.S. sporting events this weekend. Along with the championship football competition, however, comes the players’ potential risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury, a risk also present in other contact sports and well-documented in medical research and most recently in the film Concussion.
However, athletes aren’t the only ones at risk of serious brain injury. Construction workers belong in this high-risk group, too. Slips and falls are the No. 1 cause of traumatic brain injury, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
After one worker died from a fall on the hard, slick surfaces of the North Sea oil slopes seven years ago, an oil company approached Honeywell to develop a new hard hat that could further reduce the potentially damaging effects from head injuries. At its research labs in Smithfield, Rhode Island, Honeywell Industrial Safety uses an accelerometer to develop product enhancements that are incorporated in its new hard hats. Improvements range from stronger, flexible materials like amorphous co-polyester to an internal suspension system that moves to reduce the force of the impact.
“We took a different approach to what the industry has done in the past,” said Joseph Rodrigues, engineering manager overseeing the team of Honeywell’s hard hat designs for the North and Fibre Metal brands. “Our new structural design meets a higher standard of impact absorption than what the industry has seen in hard hats. Basically the helmets have more flex, so impact is attenuated through the shell and suspension.”
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