[SML] Tool box: what's in your kit

[Dale Farmer]

On 7/5/2015 2:10 AM, sdwheaton at fuse.net wrote:
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> From: "Dale Farmer via Stagecraft" <stagecraft at theatrical.net>
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>> If you wear contact lenses, your backup glasses, container for contacts, and whatever needed to put them back in after the call.
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> Good advice...
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>> If there is electrical arc welding, contact lenses must be removed due to the UV adhesion danger.
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> Bogus advice...
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> http://www.optometry.org.au/media/278085/position_statement_contact_lenses_and_welding.pdf
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> Stuart
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I stand corrected.  Then I do wonder what other effect caused the guys I 
treated with soft contact lenses adhered to their eyeballs.  They were 
both standing firewatch for welders on the ship.  Neither had dark 
goggles and both denied looking directly at the arc.

However, Canada OSHA says wearing contacts at work still not wise.
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/prevention/contact_len.html

And in the US, all I can find on the OSHA web site is a classic example 
of circular bureaucratese.
"> If properly protected in accordance with the OSHA Standards 
applicable to eye protection (ANSI Z87.1-1968) during the welding 
operation the use of contact lenses is acceptable. The exception to this 
would be where the welding process may produce gas or vapors that could 
be harmful to employees wearing contact lenses.

Googling the ansi standard produced a confusing plethora of links to 
safety eyewear vendors touting their own products.

--Dale