Revs1972
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I guess they would just provide overspecs
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I guess they would just provide overspecs
daleyd
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Yeah, I’d assume that’s what he meant by prescription safety glasses. I had some made when I worked at Pilkington, my left eye is quite short sighted and I I’d always wore thin plastic lenses, these were proper glass and too heavy to wear - genuine jam jar bottoms!They are ok for LEP if they are rated as such and they need the side bits on.
My Grandad was an engineer and had the side protection bits on his glasses like a badge of honour. He had them long after he retired from Vickers until one side fell off and he lost it - he just kept going with one side left on
It's always good to have a thread like this to remind you, as others have said it's easy to get caught out. I got a pair of wrap around specs last year and have kept them with the band on, they're the first thing to go on my head when I step outside to do any work regardless of whether I think I need them becuase if they're not right there and easy to put on then I know I'll be an idiot and just risk it if it's just a quick job. If you only need to slip them down there's no excuse.
Same thinking is that if I go to do any kind of work then anything flammable get put outside and the floor gets swept even if I've no intention of welding or grinding, it's too easy to pick the grinder up for a quick cut only to realise you're firing sparks at a jerry can or a pile of saw dust.
Same thinking is that if I go to do any kind of work then anything flammable get put outside and the floor gets swept even if I've no intention of welding or grinding, it's too easy to pick the grinder up for a quick cut only to realise you're firing sparks at a jerry can or a pile of saw dust.
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Given that you've got the best of both worlds there, not prohibitively expense, in light of the potential for eye damage in any job.
Are the brown lenses OK for brazing, plasma cutting etc?
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Maybe I used the wrong terminology! When I said goggles I ment just normal eye protection.
With my prescription they'd be 1" thick and be too heavy too wear! I also know my company wouldn't pay for them.....
You may want to check what's available now. I've had monovision (one eye longsighted, the other shortsighted) from a nipper and always had a thick lense on the left eye until a few years ago when the optician told me about some new lightwieght much thinner lenses were available, I don't know how they can change the laws of optics, but the left lense is now appreciably thinner than they used to be, maybe they developed a different process for making them?.
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I've already got the ultra thin lenses, they get thicker closer to the perimeter so a pair of goggles would be massively thick!
My glasses are £400 a pair and I need some new ones soon
Mine are similar, could be worse though, before having her cataract op mrs Robo was paying close on £700 for her photo chromatic varifocals
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I don't know which model will fit over glasses but Bolle is my preferred make.
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I use the orange uvex ones from Screwfix.
the only time I've ever needed hospital for grit/metal in my eye was when I'd spent the day under the van.
I was wearing prescription safeties. uvex goggles, plus a full facemask for the worst bits.
after I'd finished, I had a shower, and washed the grit out of my hair, into my eye!
so all the ppe in the world isn't going to neccessarily stop injuries
the only time I've ever needed hospital for grit/metal in my eye was when I'd spent the day under the van.
I was wearing prescription safeties. uvex goggles, plus a full facemask for the worst bits.
after I'd finished, I had a shower, and washed the grit out of my hair, into my eye!
so all the ppe in the world isn't going to neccessarily stop injuries
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Bloke I used to work with put his PPE (gloves, safety glasses) on top of his locker while he put his overalls on, grabbed his PPE and a load of grinding dust was dragged off the top of his locker straight into his eyes.
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Many sites demand constant eye protection now and I have found that the most comfortable type are also just about the cheapest too. They all all clear plastic and have wide arms that whilst they don't qualify as side protection actually do a pretty good job. They're also very close fitting. I use a grinder wearing them anyway even though I'm not supposed to. I also wear them in my workshop when using the mini grinder or bench grinder, or if I'm turning something that's firing off small bits of swarf.
These are the style, I just found this one randomly with google
These are the style, I just found this one randomly with google
The problem I've run into for several years now at four different plants I've worked on is scaffolders and eye protection. Managers will tell me that I have to enforce site PPE rules which include mandatory eye protection, but by nature of the job scaffs are exerting themselves (even in these enlightened times where they all use battery impact wrenches rather than manual ones) and this makes their glasses fog up in a matter of minutes. The bland "you can get anti-fog glasses/spray" doesn't wash as it just doesn't work when they're sweating their cods off in an enclosed space in the middle of summer. Apart from a US website which advertised impact goggles with built-in vent fans (practical eh?) I've never seen a solution which works? THe idle Browser brain, as I type, has just formulated an idea along the lines of the type of the helmets worn by the RNLI crews, with built-in radios so they can communicate (always a scaffolder bugbear) and forced air ventilation to keep the faceplate cooled, but how many scaffold companies/scaffolders are going to go for that?
Working in a school we obviously have to be strict on H&S, One class of year 10's we have three lads who are becoming a right pain, every time they go to the beltsander or scroll saw one of has to shout "Goggles", honestly they are so thick its untrue. It has got to the point where next week they will be barred from practical if they wont comply.
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We raised the same issue on a job a few years ago. Rain on LEP made it difficult to see so caused a hazard greater than the wearing of them aimed to prevent. The Site Manager eventually understood this and the powers that be agreed that glasses could be dispensed with when you were working outside and it was raining.
Sounds like the same situation applies with the scaffolders.
Problem lies when you'r dealing with some fool who can't think for himself and just wants to apply the 'rules' irrespective of the fact it causes the risk of an accident.
Don't know if you'd be allowed but would it be worth showing them a video of the needle in eye removal method?
On the subject of goggles does anybody have any recommendations for goggles that fit narrower faces? I find goggles are always way too big fit my face.
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They are trying it on because just about every site I work on it's mandatory and not wearing them is a yellow card offence. Battersea Power Station has hundreds of scaffolders and they all wear them,plus mandatory chin straps. If they are steaming up, they got the wrong specs. Suggest that they might want to try mesh specs, like the miners/tunnellers sometimes use.
Rain is the only reason some (but not all) sites allow them to be forsaken.
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more pies?
