[The Ginger]

Originally Posted by 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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Thank you for these insights into the realm of safety.
Please do not take any of the following rant seriously.
-Thank you

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1.

Originally Posted by remulasce

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

please share your easiest way to avoid injury
2.

Originally Posted by remulasce

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

yes my team DOES require safety glasses 100% of the time, IN THE SHOP
3.

Originally Posted by remulasce

Getting sleep and not skipping meals is an easier and more effective way to avoid injury overall.

eating food and climbing into bed require more energy than it takes to put on a pair of safety glasses
4

Originally Posted by remulasce

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

I agree that you do not need safety glasses when in a safe area where there isnt anything that could involve flying objects... However you should have a pair on you at all times during robotics (if you need to enter a shop or work on something that could physically blow up in your face then you will be glad you have them.
5.

Originally Posted by remulasce

until they fog up

use shirt to wipe fog off
6.

Originally Posted by remulasce

get scratched

keep inside a glasses case to minimize the main cause of scratched glasses of all kinds, and keep an extra pair in your backpack just in case
7.

Originally Posted by remulasce

fall off your nose

make a neck strap
8.

Originally Posted by remulasce

Super annoying, especially if you're off programming/designing somewhere safe.

please refer back to rant point number 4 (code can blow up in your face, but wont physically harm you.. only mental harm here )
9.

Originally Posted by remulasce

It breaks down trust in the safety rules.

how?
10.

Originally Posted by remulasce

You can say, 'shop rules are to wear safety glasses 100% of the time'

you are correct, I can say that 'shop rules are to wear safety glasses 100% of the time'... it is a shop, however, I believe you meant that we have to wear safety glasses 100% of the time. and you would be right again, I can say what you were implying, but that does not mean anyone will listen

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sorry, please do not take any of this rate seriously, I was REALLY bored. In all seriousness though I do understand what you mean and again please do not take any of that rant seriously
-Josiah