A company started by two scientists has developed a hard hat that will do a better job protecting workers from on-the-job brain injuries. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 9, 2022.) ...

If there's a worker directing traffic near a road work site, they may be wearing an orange hat. Another outlier hard hat color is pink. Pink hard hats are usually loaner hats owned by the ...

"But the construction workers I saw biking home today were wearing hard hats that are very similar to what I saw 10 to 15 years ago," he says. A typical hard hat consists of a plastic outer shell with ...

"Unfortunately, today's most frequently used hard hats look identical to the ones from the '60s," Bottlang says. MIPS, a Swedish company, offers a competing technology to protect a worker's brain ...