We offer unique head protection solutions from industrial safety helmets with a wide variety of slots for accessories to the sporty bump cap – inspired by nature and perfected for your protection.
You can always find the right product for any purpose with uvex’s safety helmets and bump caps, whether construction helmets for building sites, a complete set for forestry work, head protection for rescues from heights or sporty bump caps. At uvex, we take particular care to ensure that our products can be enhanced with suitable accessories and that they have a high degree of wearer comfort to increase wearer acceptance.
Safety helmet technologies
The safety helmets and bump caps produced by uvex optimally combine three important objectives: wearer comfort, relief and protection. You can find out how we use pioneering
Overview of accessories
Adapt your safety helmet to the specific requirements of your job. With the right accessories you will always be perfectly prepared for any job in any weather.
When it comes to safety helmets, maximal wearer comfort is a key consideration, as the wearer will only be protected if they enjoy wearing the helmet. This video explains how protective function and wearer comfort are intertwined.
Modern eye protection bringing together safety, functionality, quality and design, in order to keep pace with the rapid advances in industry and construction – this is what our customers expect of us and what we expect of ourselves.
Safety eyewear protects our most important sensory organ, which also happens to be the most vulnerable: our eyes. Whether for work at a milling machine, in a laboratory or with UV light, our safety eyewear incorporates the use of special coatings and appropriate tinting to satisfy the needs of any application area. But what safety eyewear is the right choice for your needs? In particular, when vision correction is also needed? Below you can find all essential information about uvex’s safety eyewear product portfolio.
You can configure your uvex safety eyewear three simple steps:
Right from the start, uvex has been a leading specialist in developing eyewear which is perfectly matched for the intended application. Our coating technology represents one of uvex’s core areas of expertise. Learn which coatings are used and what they can do – and also how you choose the perfect lens tinting.
According to an eyewear study by the Allensbach Institute on perceptions of sight, around one in every two Germans require vision correction. As such, it is important for those affected to obtain safety eyewear with the prescribed correction.
What noise exposure means for our hearing is often incorrectly evaluated – it’s not for nothing that the PPE regulation (EU) 2016/425 includes noise among the irreversible health hazards. You’re always on the safe side with our wide range of earplugs, banded ear protectors and earmuffs.
Noise-induced hearing loss has long been recognised as one of the most common occupational hazards. The tricky thing is that noise damages hearing gradually and painlessly. This is why we develop hearing protection for all situations and all noise levels, with speech and signal perception still possible. But how do you find out which is the right hearing protection for you?
You can try out our uvex hearing protection wheel online to determine the right hearing protection for your area of work. It shows the appropriate level of hearing protection based on the noise level of your place of work.
Every ear canal has a different shape and size – they are as unique as fingerprints! Anyone who values the best wearer comfort and acceptance will surely find themselves convinced by the advantages of individually adapted otoplastics.
In our wide range of gloves, you will find the perfect safety glove for a variety of applications – for all of our products, we pay particular attention to an excellent fit, as well as the required protective class.
The uvex hearing protection guide summarises everything you need to know about the subject and helps you to find relevant uvex hearing protection products.
The protection of our hands – one of the most important parts of our bodies – requires high-quality safety gloves and custom-tailored service solutions. uvex safety gloves is uvex’s competence center for working gloves and it maintains the biggest safety gloves production in Europe. The majority of our gloves is “Made in Germany” and then shipped world-wide. UVEX SAFETY Gloves in Lüneburg is the second company within the uvex safety group to have been certified to the international environmental management standard ISO 14001. ISO 14001 focuses on the continuous improvement process, with the aim of enabling concrete environmental goals to be achieved in the long term. No other safety glove manufacturer in Europe has ever achieved this stringent certification before. Learn more in the video.
Uvex safety footwear with protection class S1, S1 P, S2, S3 and S5 (EN ISO 20345) provides perfect protection in industry sectors such as automotive and machine construction, in the chemical industry, on construction sites, in service and logistics – but also in outdoor workspaces such as horticulture, agriculture and forestry. Our range also includes occupational footwear (protection class O1, EN ISO 20345) and tailor-made orthopaedic safety footwear.
Our feet are the furthest part of our bodies from our head, which means that they are far removed from our area of perception. For this reason, well-fitting safety footwear which is suited to the application area is essential in order to avoid possible injuries when walking around, kneeling or working at a machine. In particular, footwear must do much more than simply offer protection in areas where employees are on their feet for eight hours at a time. This is why we place a great deal of importance on comfort, attractive design and an exceptional fit. Learn more about optimal shock absorption at the forefoot and heel, the perfect fit without pressure points, breathable materials, durable toecaps and non-slip soles.
Here you can find out more detailed information on the technologies used in uvex safety footwear in terms of optimally regulating the foot environment, for instance, and combining safety with wearer comfort.
How do you manufacture footwear which will effectively protect its wearer from chemical and mechanical hazards? Take a look inside uvex safety footwear.
In safety footwear, occupational ergonomics deals with reducing risks which could affect the musculoskeletal system. The right footwear plays a key part in this.