Eye & Face Protection

Eye and face protection is especially important in regard to hot work, and OSHA has several requirements concerning eye and face protection:

• Helmets or hand shields must be used during all arc welding or arc cutting operations, excluding submerged arc welding. Helpers or attendants must be provided with proper eye protection.
• Goggles or other suitable eye protection must be used during all gas welding or oxygen cutting operations. Spectacles without side shields, with suitable filter lenses are permitted for use during gas welding operations on light work, for torch brazing or for inspection.
• All operators and attendants of resistance welding or resistance brazing equipment must use transparent face shields or goggles, depending on the particular job, to protect their faces or eyes, as required.
• Eye protection in the form of suitable goggles must be provided where necessary for brazing operations.
• Goggles must be ventilated to prevent fogging of the lenses as much as possible.
• All glass for lenses must be tempered, and free from air bubbles, waves, and other flaws. Except when a lens is ground to provide proper optical correction for defective vision, the front and rear surfaces of lenses and windows must be smooth and parallel.

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