The philosophy of Protection
The properties of Shoei helmet is expected to provide are determined by the company's philosophy regarding teh provision of "real" rider safety and fall into three general categories.

Three Helmet Requirements
A crash helmet must provide the rider with the highest level of protection in a variety of traffic situations:  during high speed motorway rides, leisurely rides in the country and naturally in busy inner city traffic.  Although a helmet is mainly designed to protect the rider's head, this alone is of little use if the pleasure of motor bike riding is spoiled due to a lack of wearing comfort.  In all cases, therefore, guaranteeing that each helmet ensures "safety, comfort, and passion" is of utmost imprtant at Shoei.

The Shoei Safety Concept:
Depending on personal experience, the opinions of motorbikel riders as to what constitutes ideal protection are likely to differ.  However, defining one's own objective "safety standard" would be less easy.  The Shoei Safety Concept was thus developed to guarantee objective riding safety.

The level of protection provided by Shoei products revolves around two main factors:

Passive Protection + Preventive Protection

Passive Protection:  A crash helmet is designed to protect the head of th rider against an impact.  Generally speaking, various international standards like the ECE 422/05 standard in Europe have to be fulfilled during crash helmet production and proof has to be furnished that the requisite level of helmet protection can be achieved during mass production.  Thanks to the qualit control system operated at Shoei, no product is permitted to leave production without strict quality control.

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Preventative Protection:  The Shoei Safety Concept also involves optimizing wearing comfort.  A crash helmet with a perfect fit can contribute to increasing the rider's concentration and can thus reduce the risk of accident.   Taking the various traffic situations in which a crash helmet can be used into consideration, increasing wearing comfort is the object of continuous further develpment work at Shoei.