Eye protection
Bollé Safety shields Australia during bushfire season BOLLÉ SAFETY’S START TO THE YEAR HAS BEEN BUSIER THAN USUAL, AS UNPRECEDENTED EVENTS INCLUDING THE AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRES AND THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK INCREASED DEMAND FOR EYE AND FACE PROTECTION. SALOMAE HASELGROVE WRITES.
The Rush+ is one of Bollé Safety’s most popular products.
Rush+, the latter being the first product from the manufacturer to feature the Platinum anti-fog and anti-scratch coating applied by a dipping process on the inside and outside of the lens. With fogging and scratching being two of the biggest issues in markets such as mining, the popularity of the Platinum coating quickly made its way to other
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s one of Australia’s most popular safety eyewear brands, Bollé Safety has been shielding workers from the potential for eye and face damage, with its first pair of safety goggles hitting the market in the 1950s. In the mining sector, Bollé Safety’s most popular models are Prism and
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Bollé Safety styles, with 22 products now comprising this feature. Bollé Safety has this year experienced demand in less conventional areas, following a devastating Australian bushfire season during the summer months. The company experienced a large surge during January for its fire safety goggles, the Backdraft and Pilot 2, according to national business development manager Craig Yuile. “At the moment the market is a little unprecedented with the fire season,” Yuile tells Safe to Work. “Throughout the January period, our fire goggle requirements went through the roof.” As well as providing eye protection equipment for those fighting fires, Bollé Safety has taken the extra step to provide support for organisations like the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS). Bollé Safety supplied products to the most affected areas of New South Wales and made donations to help the impacted communities during this troubling time, as well as running its own promotion featuring its new product, Mercuro. “Until the end of March, we will donate $1 from every goggle supplied through distribution to the most affected RFS organisations around Australia,” Yuile says. “Second to that, we did a deal with Essential Energy, where we reduced the price of one of our products for their workers as a reward.
