[remulasce]

Controversial topic, but here goes:

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Wearing safety glasses is not:
1. The easiest way to avoid injury
2. Not difficult

I take this to mean, your team requires safety glasses 100% of the time in the shop.

Getting sleep and not skipping meals is an easier and more effective way to avoid injury overall. Most of the time at robotics, your eyes are not actually in immediate danger.

Safety glasses should only be religiously emphasized when they are actually required:
1. When using machine tools
2. Soldering
3. Putting large force into small objects, especially anything to do with snap rings

Safety glasses seem so easy when you're not doing anything, until they fog up/get scratched/fall off your nose, and you can't see as well. Super annoying, especially if you're off programming/designing somewhere safe. It breaks down trust in the safety rules.

You can say, 'shop rules are to wear safety glasses 100% of the time', but you should make clear it's a rule, you are additionally responsible for making sure you are safe.

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