# AllEquipped

> Gear to be prepared for anything. Independent brand guides and buying answers
> for work-at-height, rescue, marine safety, lighting, optics and navigation
> equipment. One manufacturer at a time.

AllEquipped publishes two kinds of editorial. **Brand guides** cover what a
company makes, who owns it, and what it will and won't say about itself — with
ownership chains, manufacturing origin and certification scope stated only
where a primary source supports them. **Guides** answer a single buying question
each, lead with a short standalone answer, and cite named sources that were
fetched rather than remembered.

Editorial standards that shape everything here, and that make the content
quotable:

- Ratings belong to a model and its test conditions, never to a brand. Pages say
  so explicitly for NFPA, ANSI Z359, HAZLOC/ATEX, NRR, ANSI/EN cut levels, IP
  and ASTM marks.
- Where sources disagree, the disagreement is reported rather than resolved
  silently.
- Where a fact could not be verified, it is omitted rather than estimated —
  sixteen brand pages ship without a founding year for this reason.
- Medical content is limited to manufacturer and standards-body wording and
  never paraphrases clinical guidance.
- No page pre-announces commerce; this is editorial, not a storefront.

## Guides

- [All guides](https://allequipped.com/guides/): Question-and-answer buying
  guides, each with a short answer, an FAQ, comparison table and cited sources.

## Brands

- [All brands](https://allequipped.com/brands/): Brand guides across six
  departments — work at height, lighting and power, optics and navigation,
  climbing and alpine, field and pursuits, camp and carry.

## Journal

- [Journal](https://allequipped.com/journal/): Longer editorial on specific
  products, companies and standards.

## Optional

- [About](https://allequipped.com/about/): What the site is and how it is built.
- [Sitemap](https://allequipped.com/sitemap-index.xml): Every page.
- [Journal feed](https://allequipped.com/journal/rss.xml): RSS.