Posted By artisdeeian Dear all. just doing a bit of research. The wearing of safety specs is common practice now, not just with specific tasks but as 'Blanket' rules across most areas. In other words as soon as you get out of the office or car. My concerns are that a lot of employees wear glasses as prescribed by Opticians. Some Safety Specs that are issued are the perspex type with very poor or distorted lens thus in some cases causing headaches, and nausia when worn in conjunction with own prescribed ones. Has anyone else come acros this problem and if so how have you dealt with it. My concern is that there could be a case for damages if an employee was told to wear and issued with a certain type which over a period of time caused a deteriation with his/her site. Is it that Health monitoring should be introduced annually? just a thought but a concern to me. Regards Ian

Posted By SNS Prescription lensed safety glasses are available. We provide payment for safety lensed glasses with side plates / guards for our personnel who need them for work. However, we only pay for eye teats and glasses for DSE workers in accordance with the regs. Others who wear glasses to see would need to have their own tests if they didn't work for us, therefore its not our responsibility.