Mining companies are strengthening their focus on mental health as the industry acknowledges the psychological toll of remote ...

An Australian startup is launching a hard hat that does much more than just protecting a workers' head — it literally can warn someone of an imminent danger and suggests solutions to problems.

A Republican lawmaker is leading efforts to overturn a requirement that Amish workers wear hard hats at mining sites. In a dispute that pits religious freedom against workplace safety, Rep. Glenn ...

The first hard hat, produced by a WWI doughboy for the mining industry, came out in 1919. That inventor's great granddaughter explains how this PPE revolutionized industrial work. Luckily for ...

Miners wearing safety hats and Edison lamps preparing to enter mine. Harwick, PA, 1953. Prior to the 1920s, miners wore a soft cap made of cloth or canvas with a leather brim and lamp bracket to hold ...

Paper and plastics packaging and recycling company Mpact Group launched its new face shield, specially designed to attach to a hard hat, in support of the construction and related industries ...

This high-tech hard hat could make mining safer An augmented reality miner's hardhat could make the job safer, say officials with a new Sudbury-based mine safety research project.