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The statistics are alarming, but the most disturbing fact about eye injuries is that 90% of reported eye injuries could have been prevented through the use of protective eyewear according to Prevent Blindness America. How often do you cut your grass in your best dress shoes? Probably never, but I would bet that you wear your dress eyewear when cutting the grass. Are your feet, or even worse your shoes, more important to protect than your eyesight? View safety eyewear for home and kids eye protection just like you would seatbelts for driving and helmets for riding a bicycle. Our society is gradually becoming more safety conscious and usage of these types of safety devices is more commonly accepted.

When addressing safety eyewear for home use or for kids, it is important to understand the key differences between safety and dress eyewear. Safety eyewear is manufactured to the Z87.1 industrial safety standard. This performance based standard requires that frames and lenses pass both a high-mass and high-velocity test. Z87.1 is much more rigid than the Z80.5 ophthalmic standard which requires that lenses be tested by dropping a 0.56oz steel ball onto an unmounted lens. Additionally, the Z87.1 standard requires the usage of a 3.0mm lens. The use of 3.0mm lenses helps to reduce the amount of breakage and it improves lens retention in the frame. We strongly recommend the use of 3.0mm polycarbonate lenses for home safety and kids use. When used in conjunction with a certified Z87.1 safety frame for kids or home use, 3.0mm poly represents the safest product available to protect our most precious sense, or sight.

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OSHA 29 CFR 1910.133(a) 
Eye and Face Protection

Subpart 1 -- Personal Protective Equipment
1910.133 Eye and Face Protection
(a) General requirements.

1. Each affected employee shall use appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation.
2. Each affected employee shall use eye protection that provides side protection when there is a hazard from flying objects. Detachable side protectors (e.g. clip-on or slide-on side shields) meeting the pertinent requirements of this section are acceptable.
3. Each affected employee who wears prescription lenses while engaged in operations that involve eye hazards shall wear eye protection that incorporates the prescription in its design, or shall wear eye protection that can be worn over the prescription lenses without disturbing the proper position of the prescription or the protective lenses.
4. Eye and face PPE shall be distinctly marked to facilitate identification of the manufacturer.
5. Each affected employee shall use equipment with filter lenses that have a shade number appropriate for the work being performed for protection from injurious light radiation. The following is a list of appropriate shade numbers for various operations.