Head Protection from BOC – use your head and stay safe

BOC offers a wide range of head protection in the form of safety helmets, bump caps and accessories to ensure that appropriate protection is available for staff at risk of falling objects or hazardous projections.

BOC brings you well known and trusted head protection products from brands such as NORTH and CENTURION.

Bump Cap or Safety Helmet?
Safety helmets are primarily designed to protect the wearer against falling objects and consequential brain injury and/or skull fracture. They offer maximum head protection. Safety helmets are typically made from highly robust and durable materials (primarily UV stabilised high density polyethylene HDPE) to offer maximum impact protection to the head. They are a mandatory requirement in almost all industries where people are at risk of being injured by falling objects, particularly common in heavy industrial and construction work areas. European Standard EN397 specifies the physical and performance requirements for industrial safety helmets. 

Bump caps are intended to protect your workforce against minor bumps to the head, typically from low ceilings or hanging items in the workplace. Whilst they provide protection against small impacts and minor sharp objects, they are not a substitute for safety helmets since they do not offer adequate protection against falling objects and heavier impacts. European Standard EN812 specifies the quality requirements for bump caps, which are designed to provide protection against bumps caused by walking into hazardous projections.