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Originally Posted by DarkerCrimson
we arent allowed to cut, grind, weld, drill or use almost any power tools in the pit any more
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At what regional did you experience these rules? No cutting? No drilling? No power tools? No grinding and welding is understandable but I've never heard of no cutting and no drilling rules. I've used a drill, bandsaw, and drill press, etc in the pit space many times. I've even seen teams with a milling machine in their pit space. One thing I think FIRST should rule out though is circular saws in the pit space. I think that gets a little dangerous.
Anyway, I use to be your way, thinking "why the heck do I need these? I'm more prone to cutting off my finger because I can't see through these darn things" but then I changed. I wear regular glasses all the time. I didn't used to wear safety glasses. Then I realized just how many times my regular glasses saved my sight and I realized how easy it would have been for the flying piece of metal or whatever to enter on the side of my glasses and I thought I'd better start wearing safety glasses.
I've been in numerous situations of no apparant danger where glasses of some sort have ended up saved my eye(s) for some reason or another.
Now, I will admit, if I'm doing something that I need a really clear view of, which presents no real danger to my eyes, I will remove safety glasses and use my real glasses only to get a better/closer look. But some kind of glasses are always necessary.
I used to even put my face inches from a lathe chuck at 600 rpm without safety glasses but then I started to wonder what might happen if I accidentally left the chuck key in there or if the workpiece came loose or if the tool hit the chuck or something and now I wear the safety glasses (over my regular glasses.)
It is better to wear them and never need them than to not wear them and go blind. Generally speaking, blindness is not (yet) a recoverable injury.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I too have had a Dremel cutoff wheel shatter and hit my glasses. Luckily that was after I was "converted"