MSA

Every MSA item we stock, with nationwide shipping and contractor pricing.

Bayshore Safety carries 342 MSA products: Reusable Respirators & Cartridges (46), Calibration Gas & Kits (43), Gas Monitor Accessories (34), Multi-Gas Detectors (28), Face Shields (27), Batteries & Chargers (22) and 29 more categories. Logo imprinting is available on MSA hard hats through the Add Your Logo page. Ratings and approvals are shown as published by MSA; verify details against the manufacturer's current documentation.

MSA Safety Incorporated started in Pittsburgh in 1914 as Mine Safety Appliances Company, after mine engineer John T. Ryan Sr. and George H. Deike set out, with Thomas Edison's help on the electric cap lamp, to protect miners; MSA says its core products today are self-contained breathing apparatus, fixed gas and flame detection systems, portable gas detection instruments, industrial head protection, fire and rescue helmets and fall protection devices, and its catalog orders ship same day from Pittsburgh when placed by 2:30 PM Eastern. MSA's pages describe the ALTAIR portable gas detectors around its XCell sensors: the ALTAIR 4XR four-gas detector carries a four-year instrument and sensor warranty and is tested to survive 25 drops from 4 feet (MIL-STD-810G); the ALTAIR 5X measures up to six gases with a PID option for VOCs in an IP65 housing; the ALTAIR io 4 is the connected four-gas wearable built for the MSA Grid and the ALTAIR io Dock; the ALTAIR 2X is the one- or two-gas detector, and the 2XP runs a stand-alone bump test with XCell Pulse; the ALTAIR and ALTAIR Pro single-gas detectors run over two years on their sensors; and the GALAXY GX2 test stand bump tests and calibrates up to ten ALTAIR instruments at once. On head protection, MSA states it has sold well over 100 million V-Gard helmets since the "V" design was introduced; the V-Gard cap and full brim hard hats take the Fas-Trac III ratchet suspension and MSA's slotted accessories, and the V-Gard H1 safety helmet adds a chin strap, a non-contact foam liner and non-vented Class E and vented Class C versions. MSA's fall protection covers the V-FORM harnesses, V-SERIES lanyards, V-TEC personal fall limiters, V-SHOCK EDGE leading-edge lifelines and the Workman confined space and rescue line. We carry 254 MSA gas detection, head, face, eye, hearing and fall protection listings (the Advantage, Comfo and Ultra Elite respirators are on their own pages): 51 ALTAIR monitors (14 ALTAIR 4XR and 4X, 6 ALTAIR 5X, 15 ALTAIR io 4 and io 6, 9 ALTAIR 2X, 7 ALTAIR and ALTAIR Pro), 22 GALAXY GX2 test stands and cylinder holders, 43 XCell sensors and calibration gas, 50 ALTAIR chargers, pumps, probes and cases, 18 parts for the Sirius, FiveStar and other MSA instruments, 16 V-Gard hard hats (9 cap style, 4 full brim, 3 V-Gard H1), 15 suspensions, chin straps and liners, 15 V-Gard visors and frames, 17 harnesses, lanyards, lifelines and confined space devices, and 6 safety glasses and cap-mounted earmuffs. Every listing shows the part number, the ratings as MSA publishes them, and the price. Pick a monitor by the gases you need in the Gas Monitors by Gas selector (every brand side by side) or by model in Configure Your Gas Monitor; the Head Protection by Type and Class selector lists every hard hat by ANSI type, class, brim and vents, and the Fall Protection by Category selector every harness, lanyard and lifeline by standard and capacity. The guides cover who owns BW Technologies, Honeywell Analytics and MSA, how to calibrate, bump test and reset an ALTAIR 4XR, how to calibrate and bump test an ALTAIR 5X, the alarm set points by gas, the MSA V-Gard hard hat questions answered, what Type I and Type II mean, Class G, Class E and Class C electrical ratings, full brim vs cap style, which standard a full-body harness must meet and what a self-retracting lifeline is. Orders ship from stock in 1–2 business days; call (925) 215-7337 for crew quantities, logo imprinting on V-Gard hard hats and quotes. We sell nationwide.