Bullard

We’ve loved meeting and talking with so many of you at trade shows throughout 2024, and showing off our innovative safety solutions for industrial work, life sciences, and the fire service. Can’t wait to do it all again in 2025! Where will we see you? #womeninfire #fdic #aiha #interphex #ampp

Check out this video where Eddie Gorrie demonstrates one of the safety features available for our XT thermal imagers—just one more reason our decision-making TIs help your department go with confidence on every call.

The Cen10, available in vented and non-vented styles, is a low-profile safety helmet offering top and side impact protection and an integrated chinstrap to help ensure the helmet stays on your head. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eHTn8FNH

In 1919, E.W. Bullard invented the Hard Boiled? hard hat, inspired by the doughboy army helmet he’d worn in World War I. E.W.’s spirit of innovation and designed safety lives within the foundation of our company. Today,?our safety equipment protects you from the different dangers on the front lines of emergencies, construction, heavy industries, healthcare, and life sciences.

When you want to be the best, you got to train with the best!? #bullard?#seethroughthesmoke

In his contribution to this month’s edition of Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment Magazine, Bullard’s own Manfred Kihn is talking about conduction, convection, and radiation, and how they apply to thermal imaging. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/eFYmn_Vg

When fighting fires, there’s no time for firefighters to worry about their equipment. While typical heat exposures due to firefighting fall well within the range of performance for fiberglass and thermoplastic helmets, there are certain heat exposures that can impact your fire helmet. 1. Radiant heat: This is the line-of-sight heat found in high heat exposures such as fuel fires. This heat can develop in structural fires due to the synthetic compositions of the material found in structures today. This type of heat exposure is like a laser beam. Any blistering or bubbling of a thermoplastic helmet when exposed to radiant heat usually results in small pen size blisters in a very localized area of the helmet shell. This reaction to radiant heat can result after only seconds of exposure. 2. Convective heat: This is the type of heat that envelops rooms involved with a fire. This is much like walking into an oven. Heat is everywhere. Since this heat stratifies, the time it takes to boil moisture inside a thermoplastic helmet shell becomes shorter the greater the distance from the floor. Unlike radiant heat, convective heat that causes blistering or bubbling often requires several minutes of exposure. 3. Repeated exposure over time: Repeated heat exposure under the 250°F range will have limited effect on helmet shells. The difference begins to take place above this range. Thermoplastics can deal with repeated exposures well above 400°F with little damage, whereas repeated exposures will cause composites to break down over time. Tag a firefighter who needs to be aware of this information!

Employers often wonder when respiratory protection is a regulatory requirement or what to do if an employee wants to wear one when it isn't. Our upcoming webinar with Forensic Analytical Consulting Services, Inc. (FACS) will dive into respiratory protection regulations (including substance-specific standards), key elements of a successful respiratory protection program, and fit testing. Go here to register: https://lnkd.in/eaE7_qcz

The GVX abrasive blasting helmet comes with replaceable inner and outer lenses, and additional tinted lenses are available in green or smoke color. Talk to someone about GVX now: https://lnkd.in/gnBhQVgu

Our Fire and Rescue Helmets as well as Head and Face Protection can be configured online with our easy Build Your Bullard tool. You can try it out right now at www.buildyourbullard.com!