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Re: Safety question regarding vision

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post

In the worst case scenario, I have three choices:
  1. Wear my sunglasses and safety glasses, the darkness causing a safety hazard.
  2. Wear no lenses and safety glasses, blurry nearsighted vision causing a safety hazard.
  3. Do not enter CT's pit area, adversely affecting my team's performance

Which is the most reasonable and safest option? Does anyone have suggestions for other measures I could take?
I'd say it depends on how bad your eyesight is uncorrected. Mine is around 20/40 in 1 eye and 20/60 in the other. It's a real pain to wear safety glasses that fit over my regular glasses so I usually remove them when and just wear the safety glasses when I'm in the pit. I can still see well enough to read signs but I certainly wouldn't operate any machinery without them.

I think that the dark sunglasses are more hazardous to wear because while everything may be sharp it may be too dark to safely work on a robot.
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