Capital Safety is a manufacturer of fall protection, confined space, and rescue equipment for oil and gas, construction, utilities, wind energy, transportation, telecommunication, mining, and general industries.[citation needed] The company's fall protection products are sold throughout the world.[citation needed] In addition to manufacturing, Capital Safety also provides in-house and on-site fall protection and rescue training services[citation needed]. It partners with insurance providers to hold 4-hour to 5-day safety training classes.[citation needed]
In 2006, Capital Safety acquired Unique Concepts Ltd., a confined space safety equipment brand.[citation needed] In 2007, Arle Capital acquired Capital Safety.[citation needed] In 2010, Capital Safety acquired TAG Safety Ltd (UK) and the Technical Institute of Training in Height (ITFH) of France.[citation needed] In January 2011, Capital Safety formed its Global Wind Energy team with wind-energy workers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.[citation needed] In June 2011, Capital Safety opened a wind turbine training structure,[citation needed] located in Red Wing, Minnesota. Capital Safety also has a Wind Turbine training structure in Greenfield UK, near Manchester. In July 2011, Capital Safety acquired Latin America-based personal protection equipment company Arseg.[citation needed] In March 2011, Capital Safety acquired Uniline Safety Systems.[citation needed] In January 2012, KKR & Co. acquired Capital Safety for $1.1billion.[citation needed] Stephen Oswald became Chief Executive Officer in March 2012.[citation needed] On June 23, 2015, 3M announced a deal to acquire Capital Safety for $1.8billion.[2]
The Capital Safety brands—including DBI-SALA and Protecta products—and people are now a part of 3M Fall Protection.[3]
Locations
Capital Safety is headquartered in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, with primary manufacturing and training facilities in Red Wing, Minnesota. It operates manufacturing, distribution and training facilities worldwide.[citation needed] In the United States, distribution centers are located in Minnesota, southern California, Texas and Connecticut.[citation needed] The wind turbine training structure is in Red Wing, MN and opened in June 2011.[citation needed] It also has a 7,000 square-foot training facility in Houston, Texas which includes competent person, authorized person, qualified person, program administrator, rescue, tower climber, and confined space courses.[citation needed] Capital Safety has an international training center with telecommunications towers, masts and confined space rescue areas in Saddleworth, Manchester.[citation needed]
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