Many newer styles provide side protection as wrap around safety glasses.Side protection is required any time that there are hazards from flying particles or objects.***When are you required to have “side protection” or “side shields” on your safety glasses? Common tasks: sawing, hammering, and drilling.Tinted safety glasses used in torch soldering must have a shade number (1.5-3) on the lens, but do not provide adequate protection for gas or arc welding which need shades 4 or higher.
Safety glasses (spectacles) are commonly used as protection against impact and optical radiation.***What are the primary hazards for which you use safety glasses? The safety eyewear must have “Z87” or “Z87+” marked on the frame and in some cases the lens.Safety eye and face protection includes non-prescription and prescription safety glasses, clear or tinted goggles, faceshields, welding helmets, and some full-face type respirators that meet the ANSI Z87.1 Eye and Face Protection Standard.***What is safety eye and face protection?įind the Z87 marking on your safety glasses. The most common answer given by construction workers with eye injuries when asked why weren’t you wearing safety glasses:.Are they wearing the correct or proper eye protection? Never, sometimes, usually, or always?.How many workers at your site wear any eye protection at any time? None, some, or a lot?.***Do workers at your site wear proper eye protection when needed?
Use the proper protective eyewear (required, but doesn’t remove all risk). Use administrative controls (good) such as making certain areas “off limits” unless that is your work assignment area or putting passage ways out of active work zones. Use engineering controls (best) such as machine guards that prevent the escape of particles or welding curtains for arc flash protection. ***How can you reduce the eye hazards at your site?ĭiscuss solutions to preventing eye injuries at your work site Coworkers around or above you may generate the hazard. Eye injuries can result from simply passing through an area where work is being performed. Dusty or windy conditions can lead to particles in the eye. Welding leads to exposure to arcs and flashes (intense UV radiation) for welders, helpers, and bystanders. Wet or powdered cement in the eye can cause a chemical burn. Handling chemicals may lead to splashes in the eye. Hammering, grinding, sanding, and masonry work that may produce particles. Where are the most hazardous areas for eye safety (by location in the site)? What are the most dangerous jobs (by task or tools used)? ***What are the eye hazards at your site? Hammering on metal which gives off metal slivers and the rebounding of the ordinary nail are two of the most common causes of vision loss in construction workers. Even “minor” eye injuries can cause life-long vision problems and suffering–a simple scratch from sawdust, cement, or drywall can cause corneal erosion that is recurrently painful. are the most common source of eye injury to carpenters Particles of dust, metal, wood, slag, drywall, cement etc. Construction workers have one of the highest eye injury rates. ~2000 eye injuries occur everyday at work in the US. ***How many work-related eye injuries are there each day?Īsk if anyone has ever had an eye injury or knows someone who didĪsk for ideas about how it could have been avoided Instructor Questions and Guidance Instructor Questions and Guidance This discussion is expected to take ~15-30 minutes or more. It may be supplemented with other materials and samples of the eye protection available at your work site. The limited information on the right is designed to provide the background information needed in each section of the toolbox talk. You should include those questions marked with *** and a selection of the remaining questions that apply to your work site. Instructor: Use the guidance questions on the left to promote discussion of the eye safety issues at your work site.
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