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Hard Hats With Chin Straps
If you work at height or around deep excavations, a chin strap hard hat is essential. A chin strap fitted to your hard hat ensures that your head protection stays in place properly in the event of a fall, improving your safety significantly.
All our industrial climbing helmets and linesman-specific helmets come complete with chin straps. In these roles, the chances of taking a fall are elevated, so it makes sense that manufacturers would fit them with a chin strap. Hard hats with chin straps are also essential for wind farm workers, solar panel installers, miners, window cleaners, forestry workers, and scaffolders.
It is worth being aware of the different chin strap standards. In some applications, such as mining, you may need a breakaway chin strap purposely designed to release with any force between 150 and 200 Newtons. Other chin straps are designed to be “unbreakable”, allowing multiple falling items to strike the helmet without knocking it off.