Why should we wear safety eye wear?
Wearing safety eyewear in your home, workshop, garage, yard, or workplace can protect your eyes from injury and damage. Your eye can sustain significant injury from airborne chemicals, dust, and debris, so it’s important to protect yourself from potential harm.
When should we wear safety eye wear?
Safety goggles should be worn any time one is handling potentially harmful material or chemicals. If in doubt about whether or not to wear your safety goggles, always err on the side of caution. It is vastly preferable to wear safety goggles when they aren't really necessary than to fail to wear them when they ought to have been worn. In fact, if it's difficult for you to remember to wear safety goggles, then it's a good idea to simply get into the habit of always wearing them within the lab setting, just to make sure that you'll have them on when needed.
How to Maintain Your Safety eye wear?
Establish a routine to care for safety glasses by using the following tips.
- Clean daily. Cleaning can be as simple as rinsing glasses under cool water to remove debris and then drying them with a soft cloth. Spraying with a can of compressed air can remove dust and other particles that may have accumulated. Ideally, keep a cleaning cloth specially made for glasses handy. Knowing How to Clean Your Safety Eyewear is essential for their longevity and effectiveness.
- Use lens cleaner. While water can be an easy way to clean safety glasses, lens cleaners can remove residue that water cannot. Never use soap, which can leave a residue on glasses.
- Clean sides and ear pieces too. If you haven’t done this in a while (if ever), you’ll be surprised at how grimy the sides and earpieces can get. This grime can migrate onto lenses, so clean these parts often.
- Avoid abrasive cleaners or rough cloths. These can scratch lenses and make glasses un-wearable.
- Avoid household cleaners. Glass cleaners and cleaners used to clean hard surfaces such as countertops can damage any special coating on safety eyewear.
