Women Not Included: Safety Equipment

What happens when the tools designed to keep us safe aren’t built with everyone in mind?
Dr Ella Hubber investigates how safety equipment is often designed around an “average” male body and the consequences that has for women. Alongside journalist Candice Bailey and expert voices, she how healthcare workers are forced to adapt to PPE never made for them and how car safety systems fail to reflect the way women’s bodies respond in collisions. The episode reveals how deeply embedded design bias can be, even in life-saving tools.
As awareness grows, they also ask what change can look like and if, through better data, design, and regulation, safety equipment can protect us all equally.

Presenter: Ella Hubber
Contributor: Candice Bailey
Producer: Ella Hubber
Editor: Ilan Goodman