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709 Personal Protective Equipment
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Eye/Face Protectors

Glasses

Protective eyeglasses are designed with safety frames, lenses made of tempered glass or plastic, temples, and side shields. These features offer protection from moderate impacts and particles that workers might encounter in tasks like carpentry, woodworking, grinding, scaling, and similar activities.

Worker wearing goggles
Framed goggles provide adequate eye protection from many hazards.

Safety glasses are also available in prescription form for those persons who need corrective lenses.

Goggles

Vinyl framed goggles of soft pliable body design provide adequate eye protection from many hazards. These goggles come with options like clear or tinted lenses and can have perforated, port vented, or non-vented frames.

Single lens goggles offer protection similar to spectacles and may be worn in combination with spectacles or corrective lenses to ensure protection along with proper vision.

Welders goggles provide protection from sparking, scaling, or splashing metals and harmful light rays. Lenses are impact resistant and are available in graduated shades of filtration.

Chipper/Grinder goggles provide eye protection from flying particles. The dual protective eye cups house impact resistant clear lenses with individual cover plates.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

3-3. Which goggles provide similar protection to spectacles?