Protective headgear including a personnel electronic monitor device

Protective headgear for use in dangerous and/or hazardous locations comprising:

• a headgear shell configured to be worn on a human head;
• a locator device supported on said headgear shell for providing location data representative of the location thereof;
• a memory supported on said headgear shell and having a unique identifier stored therein, wherein said memory is configured to store the location data provided by said locator device;
• an antenna supported on said headgear shell;
• a transmitter-receiver coupled to said antenna for transmitting the location data and the unique identifier to a remote database and for receiving notification data from the remote database which is responsive to the location data;
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• a user interface supported on said headgear shell responsive to the received notification data to provide a visual notification or an audible notification or a physical notification or a combination thereof.

Protective headgear for use in dangerous and/or hazardous locations comprising:

• a headgear shell configured to be worn on a human head;
• a locator device supported on said headgear shell for providing location data representative of the location thereof;
• a motion sensor supported on said headgear shell for providing motion data representing movement thereof;
• a memory supported on said headgear shell and having a unique identifier stored therein, wherein said memory is configured to store the location data provided by said locator device and motion data provided by said motion sensor;
• an antenna supported on said headgear shell;
• a transmitter-receiver coupled to said antenna for transmitting the location data, the motion data and the unique identifier to a remote database.