Ski helmet testing planned: Agency
MONTREAL — The Canadian Standards Association has come out with testing and certification protocols for recreational ski and snowboarding helmets they hope will standardize the manufacture of helmets and, ultimately, reduce head injuries. “We’ve come up with special testing and performance requirements for helmets, and a helmet with a CSA sticker on it will indicate [...]
Ski helmet use an important safety issue
In his Jan. 23 column, Bob Mentzinger argued that the benefits of ski helmets are “dubious at best, misleading at worst,” and that they provide merely a “scoche” head injury insurance. He also suggested that we would spend our skiing money more wisely if we purchased an advanced ski school lesson instead of a helmet. [...]
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