眼睛和面部保护

The type of eye and face protection you select for your employees to use is based on an assessment of the job's hazards. Once you know the hazards, be sure to select the right type of protection.

• 安全 眼镜 are impact-resistant eyeglasses. They have strong safety frames and impact-resistant lenses. They come with and without side shields. OSHA requires side shields when there's a hazard from flying objects. Some models are designed to fit over regular prescription glasses.
• Goggles fit the face to form a protective seal around the eyes. They protect the eyes from impact, dust, splashes, mists, vapors and fumes. Different types of goggles are designed for different types of hazards.
• Face shields are protective windows that extend from the brow to below the chin and across the entire width of the head. Face shields are secondary protection. 安全 goggles or 眼镜 must be worn under a face shield to provide primary protection. Face shields provide additional protection from impact, 化学品飞溅或喷雾剂, 高温, splashes from molten metal and sparks.
• Welding helmets are heat resistant, and they're fitted with a filtered lens. They provide secondary protection from optical radiation, 飞溅的火星, 金属飞溅, and slag chips produced during welding, 切割和钎焊. 安全 goggles or 眼镜 provide the primary eye protection under the welding helmet.

The American National Standard for Occupational and Educational Personal Eye and Face Protective Devices (ANSI/ISEA Z87.1-2010)规定了设计, 性能规格, and marking of safety eye and face products, 包括护目镜, 眼镜, 面罩和焊接头盔. This hazard-based approach encourages users and employers to evaluate the specific hazards in their work environment, and to make the selection of appropriate eye and face protection based on this assessment.

Excerpted with permission from the Utah 安全 Council 新闻letter, August 2010.

For assistance in determining the right type of protective eyewear for your specific work situation or information on the university’s prescription safety eyewear program, please contact 环境健康与安全, 208-885-6524 or safety@hzexprot.com.

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