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Old 12-22-2014, 05:07 PM
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Default When building, do you wear eye protection always or during particular activities?

During the normal building phases, do you wear eye protection such as safety glasses or face shield during all activities, or during particular ones such as drilling, grinding, etc?

Always?

or

with all or particular power/air tool?
with all or particular hand tool?

with a particular process (drilling, deburing, cutting, grinding, measuring, wiring, riveting (hand/pneumatic), etc.?


How about gloves for hand protection with sheet metal?
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Old 12-22-2014, 05:45 PM
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Having worked in the industrial safety business for 35 years I HAVE to wear safety glasses. Besides I've taken my fair share of workers to the emergency room to have "trash" removed from their eyes and occasionally have a rust ring drilled off their eye with a Dremel-like medical tool. When using a die grinder or cut off tool, its safety glasses AND a face shield.
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Old 12-22-2014, 05:59 PM
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Default Eye protection

Same here. Having had a rust ring removed, I choose not to go through it again. Since I wear prescription glasses, I don't don the safeties unless the tool is throwing debris. Grinder, dremel, etc. Also, I always wear hearing protection around loud noises and a respirator around noxious fumes.
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Old 12-22-2014, 06:30 PM
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I use glasses to see so it's not a big problem to turn then into safety glasses. So my answer is yes, all the time.
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Old 12-22-2014, 06:31 PM
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Since I wear prescription glasses, I don't don the safeties unless the tool is throwing debris. Grinder, dremel, etc. Also, I always wear hearing protection around loud noises and a respirator around noxious fumes.
Me too, on all the above.
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Old 12-22-2014, 06:50 PM
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At a recent EAA workshop, a fellow attendee introduced me to safety readers! I wear them most of the time when working. Now I don't have to choose between being able to see and protecting my eyes.
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Old 12-22-2014, 06:57 PM
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Guilty party here, not always but often during particular activities and with particular tools.
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Old 12-22-2014, 07:23 PM
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Default Safety Readers!

+1 for these. Even if you don't require readers (I do) they ease eye strain and protect your eyes. Don't squint, get em. Win-Win
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Old 12-22-2014, 07:35 PM
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Default Bench grinder - yipes

I too wear prescription glasses and while working with a bench grinder equipped with a wire brush, have found that it is absolutely necessary to wear both goggles and a face shield. Without the goggles, I have had both 'debris' and wires from the rotary brush stick into my face.

How they got under the face shield and my glasses is a mystery but they did - so now, have added the goggles.
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Old 12-22-2014, 07:36 PM
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Always. I walk into the shop and put on my safety glasses. One other note, regular glasses with side shields don't make safety glasses. If you have percription glasses go and get some, specifically, made safety glasses. Not cheep ones but the best you can afford. A blind eye can make flying a past enjoyment
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