{"id":5731,"date":"2009-03-24T08:04:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2009-03-24T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:33:58","slug":"snowboard-skiing-new-helmet-standard-aimed-at-making-skiing-snowboarding-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5731","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; New helmet standard aimed at making skiing, snowboarding safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wearing a helmet while skiing or snowboarding can reduce the risk of a head injury by 60 per cent. But not all helmets are created equal, says the Canadian Standards Association, which is introducing certification testing under a new standard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The CSA developed a new standard for alpine skiing and snowboarding helmets last June and will begin providing testing for certification of the protective head gear next month, said John Walter, vice-president of standards for the non-profit organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;This is the first such standard in&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5jmKbUot40xmg1qrSC_pEceYkPHOQ\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a helmet while skiing or snowboarding can reduce the risk of a head injury by 60 per cent. But not all helmets are created equal, says the Canadian Standards Association, which is introducing certification testing under a new standard. The CSA developed a new standard for alpine skiing and snowboarding helmets last June and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-snow-products-tests","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}