contact lenses for welders

By rmitchell Date 05-21-2008 00:57

This is very important to me.I am a supervisor for one of the NuCor Steel Companies.one of my new welders has contact lenses and I have always been told in my 25 years in the industry, never weld with contacts,this may cause you seriouse injury or loss of sight.what are your opinions.professional or otherwise.ASAP please

By RonG

Date 05-21-2008 01:10

Try the search function and you will find a lot of input on that subject. Nothing to worry about though.

By rmitchell Date 05-21-2008 01:26

there are no choices i try that work

By jon20013 (*****)

Date 05-21-2008 02:49 Edited 05-21-2008 02:51

AWS has FREE Saftey and Health fact sheets; including Z49.1, the MOST COMPREHENSIVE and COMPLETE welding safety manual in the world, just go to the home page and search, on the right hand side.... but here's a safety fact sheet about contact lens wear:

http://files.aws.org/technical/facts/FACT-12.PDF

EDIT: Here's the link for ALL FREE Safety and Health guides:

http://www.aws.org/w/a/technical/facts/index.html?id=7DxDiDfP

By jrw159

Date 05-21-2008 03:06

Here you are. Just a small start to a well discussed topic.

http://www.aws.org/cgi-bin/mwf/forum_search.pl?words=contact+lenses&user=&board=0&min=&max=&field=body&sort=time&order=desc

Best regards,
jrw159

By scrappywelds (***)

Date 05-22-2008 21:12

I wear contact lens at work. The contacts have saved my eyes numerous times from thing getting in my eyes. the particles get stuck in the contacts. though you then need a new pair of contacts. Argon will dry them out from time to time, just a few drops and your all right.