What are the different types of eye and face protection?
When looking to provide protection to our eyes and face, you are left with a lot of choice in terms of the products available to you. The challenging part is understanding what eye and face protection is correct for your risk/hazard.
Let’s breakdown the key groups of products, the suitable hazards they protect from and the safety standards that differentiate them.
Safety Spectacles:
This eye protection product is the most common out of the options, conforming to the standard of EN166 F. This means the spectacles are designed to withstand low energy impacts, ultraviolet and solar radiation.
Safety spectacles differ on the most part with the design and comfort features, a premium product would be more suitable if being wore for long periods of time.
An example of a premium safety spectacle is here:
Safety Goggles:
This form of eye protection is used for harsh environments providing excellent durability, offering the wearer protection against medium energy impacts. With the tight fitting nature of safety goggles these will protect you from impact, particles, liquid splash and gases.
Remember that some goggles offer ventilation, for risks such as liquid splash and gas protection, it is recommended that you wear goggles with no ventilation to further reduce your risk of injury.
Conforming to the EN 166 B safety goggles to this standard have been through tough testing procedures.
Some safety goggles are designed with specific tasks in mind such as the below Welders goggle.
Over-spectacle:
This innovative spectacle allows the user to wear their prescription glasses underneath the over spectacles, maintaining your vision while providing the essential impact protection of a traditional safety spectacle (EN166).
Over spectacles come with side shields to offer further protection unlike most traditional safety spectacles.
Face Shields:
If you require more than just eye protection, face shields are a great choice offering excellent EN166 B rated impact protection and a relaxed fit for the wearer. Face shields give the user options for prescription glasses to be worn underneath while providing great comfort and a secure fit.
Protection against high energy impacts and liquid splashes. Making a face shield suitable when operating hand power tools for example.
Most commonly you will see that face shields are attached to a browguard this is to provide a secure fit with a ratchet on the back for adjustment.
Face shields have more recently been added to safety helmets for convenience, often when you require impact protection from a visor you are also required to have impact protection for your head.
For more on eye protection and what safety standard your eye protection needs to be - check out our recent blog! HERE
Safety Glasses & Safety Googles
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