presumably EN166 - but is there more to it?
Muzzer | 05/10/2014 02:20:33 |
![]() 2904 forum posts 448 photos | It looks as if you can only get prescription safety glasses up to Impact Grade 2 but they sound pretty handy and 89 quid. It's hard to say what Impact Grade most of us should consider but in his days as a hardened industrial safety manager, my father would always recommend Grade 1 for things like grinding, drilling and milling (where hardened tools can shatter and eject vicious fragments). This tends to mean polycarbonate goggles or face shields. My preferred solution is the safety glasses that I wear over my normal ones. With 2 barriers between the work and your eyeballs, you wouldn't think they'd need to be very special They are more like large glasses than goggles as such, so less prone to fogging up when things get exciting. They also provide side protection which you don't get with normal glasses and is pretty important. For really hairy stuff I will use one of those full face visors instead to protect my head and face to some extent. Specsavers seem to sell "medium impact" prescription safety glasses. Might be worth getting some of these next time the lenses are due for replacement if they aren't too unwieldy. Murray |
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