Ensuring your workforce wear their safety helmet can be a real headache. MSA Safety, the leading provider of industrial helmets, has a solution: the Fas-Trac® III Harness. No more pressure headaches, hair being pulled out, or the need to sacrifice worker comfort for safety.
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Fas-Trac® III Hard Hat
All in one comfort and safety for workers
Are you familiar with the key roles of a helmet harness?
The main component of a safety helmet is its shell - the outer part of the helmet designed to protect the wearer from falling objects by deflecting them - and its harness.
The harness fulfils several crucial functions:
For your safety
- It plays a critical shock-absorbing role in the event of an impact.
- It ensures the helmet stays on your head, even when you invert your head or shake it.
- It keeps the helmet stable on your head.
- Adjustment options allow you to adapt comfortably to wearing preferences.
- Pressure points and compression headaches are a thing of the past.
- It ensures the hard hat is balanced on your head.
- It allows air to circulate well inside the shell.
- It does not cause hair-pulling.
- Its sweatband, made of a breathable material, covers the headband's full circumference, ensuring wide coverage of your forehead.
- Its closure system is easy to handle, even if you are wearing safety gloves.
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Safety Helmet Harness Benefits
Safety helmet harnesses are not all equal. What will you gain by choosing MSA safety helmets fitted with the Fas-Trac® III Wheel Ratchet Harness?
1. BALANCE & STABILITY
- The lower nape strap improves retention.
- Adjusts for a customised fit on the back of the head.
2. HEADBAND COMFORT
- The comfort pad, by separating the back of the ratchet from the head, cradles the head while encouraging airflow.
- Prevents hair from getting pulled.
3. EASE OF USE
- The wheel ratchet offers smooth rotation, virtually no backlash, and a graspable knob that can be adjusted — even with a gloved hand! It holds securely.
4. ADJUSTABILITY
- Three levels of nape adjustment allow the desired fit and wearing height.
- Prevents interference with the line of sight or other protective gear, such as ear defenders.
- Self-adjusting textile crown straps for fast height adjustment and comfortable fit
5. SWEATBAND COMFORT
- The largest sweatband surface area on the market covers the suspension headband and the user's forehead for added comfort.
- Prevents interference with the line of sight or other protective gear, such as ear defenders.
Other benefits include:
- Overhead straps in woven polyester provide high comfort and long-term, consistent shock absorption performance.
- You can slide the harness horizontally at any time: grab the helmet's shell with two hands and slide forward for better sun protection; slide backward for a better upward view.
- No metal parts.
Fas-Trac® III Wheel Ratchet Harness
The Fas-Trac® III wheel ratchet harness improves your head protection experience and is made to go with market-leading MSA Safety helmets.
MSA Safety's extensive customer research showed the Fas-Trac® III harness was preferred by more than 92% of test users over what they were currently wearing because it improved helmet comfort, retention, and stability.
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What workers using MSA safety helmets fitted with the Fas-Trac® III wheel ratchet harness say:
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“I like the Fas-Trac® III due to the security of fit and the comfort of fit.”
Rachel — Construction User
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“Fits lower on the back of the head. Helps helmets stay on when guys are leaning over.”
Jim — Shipyard User