Hi

During recent maintenance work an experienced fitter was welding and when obtaining new welding rod he lifted welding shield and slag popped of workpiece into his eye.

Is it common practice for welders to wear safety glasses or safety goggles under welding shield ?

Want to try and implement practical corrective action

Any help would be greatly appreciated

I would agree with the above in general, but looking at alternatives such as photoreactive masks or 'flip up' welding masks may also highlight opportunities to prevent recurance.

We recently purchased a positive pressure air hood with flip up reactive welding glass over a full face shield for our metalwork technician. It came via BOC (or whatever they are called these days) and was surprisingly affordable - but we only have the one guy to kit out. I think it was around £300

He was initially sceptical, but is a very quick convert. Now he walks about like the love child of Darth Vader and Iron man! only issue is he can'r combine it with ear defenders, so has to use plugs (along with our other efforts to reduce noise)

Al

In the last place I worked we had the exact same issue. We found the welder would remove their masks often and we had a number of eye injuries. We found a supplier of ultra-low profile glasses which fitted very close to the head. The helmets were air fed and we never had a problem with them steaming up. To be honest no real difference to a welder who needed prescription glasses to see.

Chris