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FORTIS equips Team Sonnenwagen for the World Solar Challenge in Australia

Australia – harsh, hot, unpredictable. This is where Team Sonnenwagen Aachen e.V. will compete in the 2025 World Solar Challenge – the toughest solar car race in the world. Also on board: workwear from the FORTIS brand!

As a sponsor, FORTIS is equipping the team with high-quality workwear that can withstand the extreme conditions of the Australian outback. Cold in the morning, hot at noon – the clothing protects, supports, and rises to every challenge.

This is FORTIS's debut in the desert – and we are proud to be part of this extraordinary journey. Sustainable mobility meets uncompromising functionality.

More about the team: www.sonnenwagen.org

FORTIS accompanies Team Sonnenwagen Aachen to Australia

Sunlight becomes energy, energy becomes motion—and motion becomes progress. That is precisely what the Sonnenwagen project stands for: overcoming boundaries, embracing innovation, and rethinking the mobility of tomorrow.

As a partner, we share this vision. We believe that responsibility, technology, and courage make the difference. What is being created here is more than just technology. It is a statement: for progress, for sustainability, for clothing that thinks for itself.

FORTIS – driving the future together.

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PPE regulation

The European regulation on personal protective equipment (PPE) has been in force since 21 April 2018.

Nevertheless, the issue is still highly topical, as the new regulation is mandatory.

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ALWAYS A WATCHFUL EYE – Protective goggles in view

Whether it is aggressive chemical substances or foreign bodies that can hit the eye and, in the worst case, injure the cornea, as sensitive as the cornea reacts to external influences, the sensitive sensory organ must be protected at work.

How exactly this has to be done is regulated, among other things, by the European standard EN 166. The rules of the trade association do not leave any questions unanswered on this point:
If it cannot be ruled out that the insured persons are exposed to accidents or health hazards, the employer shall provide personal protective equipment and keep it in proper condition. This includes eye or face protection. For example, if there is a danger from flying parts, spraying of liquids or dangerous radiation.

Easy to hurt, easy to protect: What threatens the eye in the workplace.

Mechanical hazards: dust, push impacts, solid particles
Thermal hazards: hot liquids, splashes of molten, flames
Chemical or biological hazards: acid spatter, solutions, alkalis, infected blood
Dangers from light: ultraviolet, infrared and visible radiation (light), laser
Dangers from electricity: direct contact, arcs, short circuit

The European standard refers to protective glasses or viewing glasses. In the case of viewing glasses, a distinction is made between safety viewing glasses and glasses with filter effect. For example, goggles consist of the eyeglass body and the viewing glass according to DIN EN 166.