Hey, for the new year, lets talk about safety eyewear.
The last company I worked for was big on safety. One of the things we had at the periodic safety meetings was personal protective equipment. Now this could cover respirators and hardhats and steel toed shoes and proper clothing and gloves, but I'm talking about eye safety here.
As we had machine shops, assembly shops, electrical labs with soldering and drilling etc, and we were also prone to visit customer sites which were rife with machinery and impact sources we were required to have safety eyewear. I found it difficult and irritating to wear goggles and shields over my existing prescription glasses and even bad in inclement weather or hot weather, Even just carrying the stuff was a pain. I decided to buy some prescription safety glasses and even charge them as an expense.
I found a shop - my normal optical shop, where he carried ANSI Z87-2 rated frames and lenses which was what the company required. And for me, they had some nice metal wire frames that looked like everyday professional wear, not those heavy glasses you see machinist wearing. So basically you find me wearing my safety glasses 100% of the time I am awake. Because aside from work, and woodshop at home, I participate in air guns, fishing and tennis.where there can be flying objects! I wear progressives, and got alll the cool features - antireflective coating, scratch resistant, transitions (auto grey in sunlight) and progressive multifocal with high index (lightweight) polycarbonate impact-resistant lenses.
Since I retired I have not had sugar daddy pay for new glasses, but I have been having my close distance vision changing to the point where I see better with the glasses off so that's bad as I want to ripoff the glasses when routing, sawing and sanding.
So I find my Medicare Advantage is paying 150 toward eyewear and will be reducing it to $100 next year.
My optical shop closed and I've been looking but no local shops carried a line of safety frames that I could chose from.
I found on the internet a outfit Safetygearpro.com that had a local office. I went to the office and picked out a frames and a size from the samples they had, and got all the features below for $195 shipped. I should have them in a few days. The antireflective coating cost me a bit and I probably don't really need them but I find when I am in pictures I don't get this big glare over my glasses. The frames style are by Honewell/Uvex, style BC101. Anyway $195 seems pretty reasonable and I've filed for $150 back from insurance.
Anyway I mention this so that those of you who don't wear safety glasses in the shop perhaps should think about it and do it.
My current safety glasses.
The last company I worked for was big on safety. One of the things we had at the periodic safety meetings was personal protective equipment. Now this could cover respirators and hardhats and steel toed shoes and proper clothing and gloves, but I'm talking about eye safety here.
As we had machine shops, assembly shops, electrical labs with soldering and drilling etc, and we were also prone to visit customer sites which were rife with machinery and impact sources we were required to have safety eyewear. I found it difficult and irritating to wear goggles and shields over my existing prescription glasses and even bad in inclement weather or hot weather, Even just carrying the stuff was a pain. I decided to buy some prescription safety glasses and even charge them as an expense.
I found a shop - my normal optical shop, where he carried ANSI Z87-2 rated frames and lenses which was what the company required. And for me, they had some nice metal wire frames that looked like everyday professional wear, not those heavy glasses you see machinist wearing. So basically you find me wearing my safety glasses 100% of the time I am awake. Because aside from work, and woodshop at home, I participate in air guns, fishing and tennis.where there can be flying objects! I wear progressives, and got alll the cool features - antireflective coating, scratch resistant, transitions (auto grey in sunlight) and progressive multifocal with high index (lightweight) polycarbonate impact-resistant lenses.
Since I retired I have not had sugar daddy pay for new glasses, but I have been having my close distance vision changing to the point where I see better with the glasses off so that's bad as I want to ripoff the glasses when routing, sawing and sanding.
So I find my Medicare Advantage is paying 150 toward eyewear and will be reducing it to $100 next year.
My optical shop closed and I've been looking but no local shops carried a line of safety frames that I could chose from.
I found on the internet a outfit Safetygearpro.com that had a local office. I went to the office and picked out a frames and a size from the samples they had, and got all the features below for $195 shipped. I should have them in a few days. The antireflective coating cost me a bit and I probably don't really need them but I find when I am in pictures I don't get this big glare over my glasses. The frames style are by Honewell/Uvex, style BC101. Anyway $195 seems pretty reasonable and I've filed for $150 back from insurance.
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My current safety glasses.
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