Baseball Cap Style Bump Cap

Product Description

A bump cap either looks like a baseball cap or like a hard hat made of thin plastic. It has a softer, more compact shell than the hard hat, and normally features a sun visor. Unlike a baseball cap, however, bump caps are padded.
Bump caps are designed for people working in spaces where they might bump their head against low obstacles, or perhaps when working in a location like a basement crawl space or an airplane baggage hold. As its name suggests, a bump cap protects against mild contact between a person's head and a surface, where it is the person and not the surface or object doing the moving.
The padding provides enough protection to avoid bruising, cutting, and, more importantly, the momentary disorientation that can occur at the moment of impact. That disorientation, and perhaps even "seeing stars," can lead to further injury, since your concentration and situational awareness are temporarily obscured.
Bump caps are also more breathable and more comfortable to wear than hard hBaseball caps have no padding and offer no protection against impact. Their only safety feature is the sun protection afforded by the visor.
Baseball caps can, however, be converted to bump caps by installing bump cap inserts. These are available at many safety supply companies. Using these inserts allows users a wider range of styles since they can wear any conventional baseball cap.