The Red Dot Design Award, founded in 1955 in Germany, have honored international companies for almost 70 years that combine quality, technicality, and innovation in safety product development.
Red Dot has recognized Bollé Safety for its innovative UNIVERSAL goggle which brings unparalleled functionality to the PPE category, offering users a bespoke fit and comfort for any use. Universal is available in a range of specific color-coded styles making it easy to identify which model is suited best for each field of use. On top of all that, UNIVERSAL is designed for optimized recyclability.
“Bollé Safety is proud to receive this prestigious award, which recognizes the years of R&D work and the unwavering commitment of our internal teams to excel as an influential international company in the industrial sector in the PPE market,” said Julien Konieczny, Product Development Manager at Bollé Safety. ‘Our priority has always been to develop masks combining safety, comfort, and style to allow industry professionals to be protected daily, and clearly, our UNIVERSAL model fulfills its mission to perfection,” added Konieczny.
UNIVERSAL, Bollé Safety’s most innovative google, offers a range of unique features and benefits which Red Dot called out in its selection of UNIVERSAL.
Unique features and benefits include:
● Wave technology – The goggle is designed with an accordion bellows system that adapts to the user’s face shapes and perfectly distributes the pressure of the goggle on the entire face, ensuring an optimized fit for each morphology and individual.
● Panoramic vision that minimizes blind spots with a polycarbonate lens.
● Exclusive PLATINUM coating protects the mask against scratches while slowing the appearance of fog.
Four versions of the UNIVERSAL to suit all types of industries. The color of the straps and the soft part of the goggles vary depending on the field of use, particularly in terms of ventilation, lens shades, and materials:
Yellow: These have indirect ventilation and are suitable for a wide range of users, including construction workers and metallurgists where dust poses a limited risk.
Green: Unlike the yellow goggles, these are completely sealed and suitable for professionals working with flammable products, hazardous gasses, fine particles, etc., such as in petrochemical environments or the food industry.
Gray: Made with a neoprene braid more resistant to chemicals than nylon. Ideal for workers using solvents, acids, etc.
BolléBlack: Designed with lenses for welding. Suitable for welders handling class 2 to 5 glasses. Additionally, UNIVERSAL provides impact resistance of type B (the highest for a mask) according to the EN1663 standard and is compatible with prescription glasses. Finally, the ease of disassembly allows for the separate recycling of materials (TRP, PC, and Nylon), and packaging in a 100 percent recycled and recyclable high-density polyethylene bag.
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Created more than 130 years ago in France, Bollé Safety is the global PPE Eyewear Specialist (Personal Protective Equipment). As an international player, Bollé Safety offers a wide range of innovative eye protection products that are comfortable, designed, and adapted to each market segment (construction, health, energy, heavy industry, defense, clean rooms, automotive, office automation, etc.), with a growing focus on Eco-conception. In more than 100 countries, Bollé Safety equips 20 million workers with products that improve their performance and well-being, from the moment there are risks for the face and the eyes, even in extreme environments. Since 2021, the brand has accelerated its CSR approach. This approach focuses on the measure of its impacts, product, and packaging innovations as well as internal commitments.
