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Posted By Brian S
An employee wishes his company to provide safety bifocals for use at his job - welding.
Could anyone state the best type and if the company need to pay the full cost (as PPE), or are contributions from the employee the norm?
I am no expert in this field - but I thought the employee would have his own glasses, and a welding mask would be provided by the company that fits over the entire head. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance, B
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Posted By A Campbell
Although would be beneficial for employee relations... is he a long serving employee?
On the other hand can you not wear non safety glasses behind the face shield.... that is the ppe you provide is this not adequate?
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Posted By Flic
You don't tell us what kind of welding (and this fundamentally affects the type of eye protection needed).
For arc welding you do need a visor because you need to shield the face from the spatter and the ultraviolet light. He would wear his own glasses behind the visor, I guess.
Welders do do things other than welding, however. They cut, grind, remove slag, prepare metallographic samples, etc and it is probable that for these activities he might need prescription safety specs.
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Posted By Francis E S Hone
Welders do do things other than welding, . They do cut, grind, remove slag, prepare and it is probable that for these activities he might need prescription safety specs.
I would say for these activities the operator would need goggles over his glasses and a face visor. Safety glasses alone are not enough for cutting off and grinding activities.
Having said that he may be in areas that also need eye protection such as the machine shop or general work ares if they exist in your workplace. so it would be reasonable to offer prescription safety specs in these circumstances.
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Posted By Bob Shillabeer
Do an assessment of the work involved. Does he wear glasses anyway? The law requires you to provide eye protection not galsses for reading etc, this comes under general health issues. If his eyesight is poor he should be wearing glases anyway so as said eye protection over his glasses is enough. Unless the task requires bifoculs tell him to go away and get them himslef and just provide standard eye protection as you would with someone who has no eyesight defriciency.
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Posted By Melanie Fellows
Historically we have only provided single vision lenses, but this is changing (on an individual basis) for the following reason;
I've been having problems on one site in that our client does not allow the use of overspecs for our everyday site operatives (visitors are fine).
So we sent one of our operatives off to get prescription glasses (with a pre-paid voucher), which allows single vision glasses, he needed bifocal, so bought two pairs of glasses instead (no I don't understand the logic), so now I'm in a situation where he needs to swap over his glasses depending on his task - which could get him thrown off site if caught without his glasses on.
So in future, at my company, if the person needs specific glasses, he'll be getting them!
Mel
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Posted By Brian S
Thanks for all responses. Bob, your response is what I am looking to implement, so thanks for that.
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