How to Customize Good Quality Branded Hard Hats for ... - Jupmode
How to Customize Good Quality Branded Hard Hats for ... - Jupmode
Safety is one of the elements that significantly affects the performance of your workforce.
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In industries such as construction and manufacturing, the workforce often faces safety risks like falling objects.
Safety clothing and personal protective equipment like hard hats is necessary to shield your workforce from head injuries, making them feel safe at work.
However, many companies underestimate the power of hard hats in boosting brand exposure.
Today, we’ll look at:
- How to customize quality branded hard hats for your workforce
- What are custom branded hard hats?
- Comparison between custom and non-custom hard hats
- Frequently asked questions about custom hard hats
Pro Tip: Customized hard hats are a great marketing tool, especially when employees wear them regularly.
While protecting employees from on-the-job injuries, they also market your brand and create awareness among your potential customers.
Let’s look at how to customize quality branded hard hats for your workforce to boost brand visibility and make your workforce feel like an empowered team.
1 - Choose the Right Imprint Colors
When customizing, choose the right imprint colors for your hard hats.
Hard hats are available in different colors for easy personnel recognition on the job site. For instance, workers with leadership roles can wear red hats, supervisors can wear blue hats, and regular workers can wear green hats.
Color differentiation also makes it easy to know when someone is in the wrong place.
Since safety regulations require that hard hats be visible from all directions, always go with bright colors like red, yellow, orange, or green.
However, you don’t have to stick with one color. Two or more imprint colors will give your hats a more personalized look.
Additionally, if you want to print your logo or brand name on the hats, find the right color combination to maintain visibility while effectively communicating your message.
Some excellent color combinations that give hard hats a good look include red and green, blue and yellow, and white and red.
2 - Customize With a Logo
The best way to customize branded hard hats for your workforce is by printing your company logo on them.
Hard hats customized with your company logo go beyond keeping your employees safe. They create a sense of belonging and make your employees feel good about being part of the team.
There are two ways to print your logo on hard hats:
- Decal: You can print a decal, which is a sticker that sticks to the surface of the hat. Printing a decal is easier and less expensive, though does have the potential to wear off over time.
- Directly onto the hat: You can also imprint your logo directly onto the hat. This will last much longer than decal logos.
The best place to print a logo on hard hats is on the front of the hat, above the brim. It's the most visible place that will best expose your logo.
Avoid imprinting on the back or sides of the hat as it reduces the visibility of your logo.
When printing, ensure your logo is of the right size that fits perfectly on the hat while remaining visible, too.
Make the logo large enough to be easily seen, but not so large that it looks out of place. Most logos are sized between 2 x 2" and 4 x 4".
In short, get your brand name out there with branded hard hats printed with your company logo for a unique and professional look.
3 - Add Some Personalized Text
In addition to the company logo, you can customize hard hats for your workforce by printing custom text on them.
Examples of text you can imprint to personalize your hard hats include:
Company Name
Your company name on your hard hat is a cost-effective way to create brand identity, increase brand visibility, and boost brand recall.
If your employees regularly work outdoors, hats printed with your company name gives them a sense of belonging. Additionally, they get a sense of identity if they’re working together with employees from other companies.
Safety Slogans
Hard hats printed with safety slogans not only act as protective equipment but also as advocates of safety.
Pass a powerful message to your employees by printing safety slogans on their hats.
Examples of safety slogans you can print on your hard hats include:
- Think safety
- Safety starts with self
- Think safe, work safe, be safe
- Safety first, so you last
Job Roles
How about using hard hats to identify employees by their job roles? You can label hats meant for supervisors differently from general workers.
For instance, printing a large ‘S’ to denote supervisor and ‘V’ to denote visitor creates a distinction between employees and non-employees on a job site.
Alternatively, you can print the full job roles (e.g Supervisor), depending on your preferences.
Employees' Names or Initials
Instead of job roles, you can personalize the hats with individuals' names or initials.
Printed names or initials make employees stand out, and it becomes easy to identify them on-site.
Text to Commemorate Occasions
You can also use your hard hats to commemorate important occasions or remember significant people.
For instance, you can customize hats to mark safety events such as National Safety Week, World Safety Day, or Safe and Sound Week.
If you want us to help you customize hard hats for your workforce, you only need to tell us how you want it done and the text you want printed on them.
You’ll have your branded hats in the shortest time possible.
4 - Consider Custom Strip or Artwork
Another creative way to customize hard hats for your workforce is to include custom strips and artwork.
Reflective strips are especially effective if your employees regularly work at night. These strips can glow at night and provide an easy way to identify a worker in the dark.
Therefore, they help reduce accidents and enhance workplace safety at night.
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Custom artworks are also unique and make your hats look more attractive. You can customize your hats with drawings and artwork which portray a special message (e.g. unity) about your brand.
Artwork is a great way to communicate your values, personality, missions, and vision as a brand.
Expert Tip: Keep your artwork simple to make it memorable while effectively passing your message to the public.
Now that you know how to customize hard hats, let’s briefly look at what exactly branded hard hats are (and the benefit of having one).
What Are Custom Branded Hard Hats?
Custom branded hard hats are hard hats modified to suit your specific needs and preferences in terms of design, color, printing, and branding.
As a unique and cost-effective marketing tool, you can customize hard hats in a way that benefits your company by:
- Creating more brand awareness for better marketing opportunities
- Boosting brand visibility to attract more prospective clients
- Exposing your company logo to enhance brand identity
- Sharpening brand recognition to build trust and loyalty
Custom vs Non-custom Hard Hats
As mentioned, custom hats are often personalized to fit your desired specifications, while non-custom hats come in a one-type-fits-all design.
The table below will help you understand the pros and cons of customized hard hats and their potential impact on your brand.
Custom Hard Hats Pros Cons Unique Make your brand stand out from the crowd Specific for one brand (can’t be shared) Brand visibility Enhance brand visibility and boost brand awareness Poor customization can lead to poor brand visibility Sense of belonging Gives your employees a sense of identity and belonging Ineffective if they don’t consider employees’ tastes and preferencesAs you can see, custom branded hard hats not only keep your employees safe but also highlight your brand and make it stand out from the crowd.
Frequently Asked Questions
What should I look for when customizing my hard hats?
Some of the aspects you need to look out for when customizing your hard hats include:
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The type of material. This may affect the impression of custom imprints such as logo appearance. Types of materials used to make hard hats include: High-density polyethylene (HDPE), ABS plastic, aluminum, fiberglass, and carbon fiber.
HDPE and ABS plastic hard hats are the easiest to customize and make the best quality branded hard hat print.
- The design. Some designs (e.g. those with irregular surfaces) make it hard to print custom texts or logos on the hats.
- Color preferences. It’s best to go with your employees’ color preferences or your company’s theme colors.
- The colors. Poor color combinations like red and orange will affect the overall display of your hats.
What type of hard hats are suitable for my employees?
There are two types of hard hats you can customize for your employees depending on the type of risk at the workplace:
- Type 1. Protects your employees from vertical impact, such as impact from a falling hammer.
- Type 2. Protects your employees from vertical and lateral impact, such as impact from hitting sharp window corners.
Talk to your hard hat supplier and they’ll help you determine which type of hats are the most suitable for your employees.
Where can I get a custom branded hard hat with a logo?
Here at Jupmode, we customize your hard hats and make them suitable for both your brand and your workforce.
Our custom hard hats create a safe working environment while making your brand uniquely stand out from the crowd.
Contact us today and we’ll get started on customizing the perfect hard hat for your brand.
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Why Helmets? - Hard Hats to Helmets
Hardhats to Helmets: Why Helmets?
The iconic construction hard hat, a symbol of pride for the construction worker, has changed very little in 50 years. Developments in the understanding of the causes and prevention of debilitating and often fatal head injuries is leading to a revolutionary change in the way we protect our people from head injuries on the jobsite. The classic hard hat is about to change forever.
FAQ’s
General Questions
Why change from hard hats to helmets?
Helmets offer superior protection for construction workers. Traumatic Brain Injuries are responsible for 25% of all construction fatalities, and many life altering injuries. These safety helmets are inspired by the best features of hard hats for construction and head protection for sports such as rock climbing and cycling. They incorporate energy-absorbing liners, and other technologies to ensure the head is better protected from impact. These helmets can help the construction industry reduce these fatalities and injuries.
How are the helmets different than hard hats?
The helmets provide two key features compared to a hard hat that will help protect our people:
- An energy-absorbing liner to significantly improve protection from impacts and penetrations to the Top Sides, Front, and Rear of the helmet.
- A chin strap to assure that the helmet will stay on during a slip, trip, or fall.
What are the weaknesses in a traditional hard hat?
There are some basic principles that the standards organizations and industries of many countries have recognized and have begun to address:
- Hard hats fall off often and can’t be relied on to be there when people really need them; in a fall. Hard Hats fall off from even simple movements like leaning over. Hard Hat lanyards exist because we anticipate the hard hat is going to fall off, and we want to prevent a larger incident from the dropped object.
- Hard Hats are only designed to address impacts and penetrations to the crown of the helmet. They are not engineered to offer protection from impacts and penetrations elsewhere on the helmet.
- Hard Hat standards focus on what happens when an object impacts the hard hat, but not conditions like a head impacting an object during a fall.
Where else worldwide has this type of helmet been adopted and why?
Many countries around the world have directly adopted or been inspired by the EN industrial helmet standards of the UK and European Union. These standards address items such as head protection in a fall and hard hat retention.
Such helmets are found across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. ANSI standards used in the U.S. do not include such requirements. Nonetheless, helmets that meet a combination of ANSI and the same EN standards are being adopted across many major U.S. Contractors. Gilbane, Skanska, Clark Construction, Balfour Beatty, and many more have moved their personnel to helmets like this and are starting to encourage or require the use of these helmets for the specialty contractors working with them.
What is the response if customers/owners object to the use of helmets?
The helmets meet all requirements of ANSI Type 1, Class C, G, and some cases E, helmets. This means they satisfy all OSHA requirements and meet or exceed the performance of existing hard-hats. Though they might look different, there is not a technical reason a customer/owner could object to the use of these helmets.
Can you get a company logos on a helmet?
Yes.
Is the chin strap required to be engaged?
Chin straps secure the helmet to your head and ensure that the helmet does not come off your head during a slip, trip and fall. In addition, the chin strap will keep the helmet on your head should you bend over frequently to do your job. Manufacturers require the chin straps to be engaged.
Can we put stickers on our helmets?
Stickers may be permitted, but the guidance provided in the OSHA Standard Interpretation to Ms. Johanna Cohan dated 10/27/ must be followed: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/-10-27
Do we still need hard hat lanyards?
No. If the helmet and chin strap are properly fitted to the individual, a hard hat lanyard is not necessary. The helmets are designed for work at heights, and the chin strap system is designed to retain the helmet through various working conditions and in the event of a fall.
Aren’t helmets much more expensive than hard hats?
Currently, helmets are significantly more expensive than hard hats. Significant orders have seen reductions in cost for bulk purchasing. The total amount of heads protected by helmets relative to hard hats is currently low but growing. As helmets gain greater acceptance and the number of heads protected goes up, it is expected the price will drop. In addition, there are many new helmet vendors coming into the market, which is expected to make a helmet purchase more cost-effective. Finally, the cost of a helmet relative to other safety equipment (such as fall protection equipment) is comparable or less, and provides protection against traumatic brain injuries, which result in significant, life-altering changes to the injured employee and very high cost to the employer and insurer.
As an employer, why should I make the change? OSHA says ANSI TYPE 1 is acceptable, and my workforce is transient.
While ANSI Type 1 hard hats are acceptable to OSHA, they do not provide side impact and penetration resistance of helmets, nor do they have an integral chin strap to keep the helmet in place during a fall event. It is important to note that so many recreational and sports activities utilize helmets and up-to-date technology to prevent head injuries (such as football, bike riding, skiing, horseback riding, hockey, mountaineering, baseball, lacrosse for example), while construction utilizes 60-year-old hard hat technology. Construction is a hazardous profession and head injuries do occur. It is incumbent on employers to provide a safe work environment for the employee, and providing helmets to the workforce, even if transient, shows care for the well-being of the employee, which generally results in improved safety and job performance.
We don’t work at heights, why do we need helmets?
Our collective experiences as construction companies and independent research indicate that falls can and do occur from the same or low levels. Helmets can provide protection from head injuries by utilizing shock-absorbing materials and an integral chin strap to keep the helmet on the head, regardless of the distance of the fall.
In addition, helmets provide protection against side impact and penetration, which ANSI Type 1 helmets do not.
Aren’t helmets hotter than hard hats?
Recent studies (see Research and Development link here to this section of website) indicate that helmets are no hotter than hard hats, and indeed may be cooler due to the insulating properties of a foam liner. Helmet design generally incorporates accommodations for air flow and ventilation to reduce interior temperatures.
Accessories
What accessories will be available for use with helmets? Are aftermarket accessories available?
There are many accessories customized to fit with safety helmets. These may include the following:
- Face shield brackets compatible with plastic and mesh face shields.
- Fold up earmuffs attached to the helmet.
- Headlamps with hooks to retain the head lamp strap integrated in the helmet.
- Clear and mirrored visors that act like a partial face shield.
- Communication equipment.
- Welding accessories.
- Etc.
Technical Questions
What Technical and Performance Standards do these helmets meet?
While there are variations in the technical and performance standards that are currently available in the market, helmets generally conform to the following:
- ANSI/ISEA Z89.1- Type 1 and
- EN - Generally meet the Shock Absorbing (clauses 4.2.1.1, 4.2.1.2, 4.2.1.3, and 4.2.1.4) and Penetration (clause 4.2.2), while some helmets may meet all applicable EN clauses.
- ANSI/ISEA Z89.1- Type 2 (ANSI Type 2 helmets may also meet the EN standard)
Does a helmet work with my full face and half face respirator?
Yes, but just like a hard hat, you must put on in the proper order. Respirator on, adjust straps and fit, helmet on, secure chin strap, adjust straps and ratchet on suspension.
What is the life expectancy of a helmet? Are there durability concerns?
The helmets have a five to ten-year recommended service life, depending on manufacturer. Wear parts could be replaced during this life span. A helmet could experience a reduced life from various factors such as impact, chemical exposure, sun exposure, misuse, etc.
What are the maintenance requirements?
Helmets require periodic cleaning, proper storage when not in use, and a minimum annual inspection to verify it’s still suitable for use. Suspensions, if incorporated should be replaced annually. Some helmets also feature a UV indicator which indicates when the plastic shell has been exposed to enough UV radiation to remove from service, regardless of time in service.
What are the helmet size ranges?
A helmet can generally accommodate almost all head sizes with ratcheting adjustment to dial in fit anywhere along that range.
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