CENTURION
Innovation : MIPS
What is Mips?
A Brain protection system for industrial safety helmets designed to reduce rotational motion transferred to the head during certain angled impacts.
Conventional Helmets
Conventional helmets are designed and tested for straight and relatively central impacts, which complies with standard EN 397. However, the reality is that in most cases, the impact is either lateral or has an oblique acting force, which results in a rotational motion that can be transferred to the head.
Conventional helmets are designed to protect against linear impacts but at a large extent they will pass on the rotational motion.
Safety Helmets with Mips®
The Mips system complements the impact absorption of a conventional helmet with its ability to help deflect rotational motion from the head. If there is an oblique impact to the head or a vertical impact that hits the head on the side, the low friction moving layer mounted inside the helmet is designed to move slightly in order to help direct rotational motion away from the head.
