Safety Glasses Regulations

[Roger]

After ~5 years of wearing clunky goggles over my regular glasses, I'm finally going to get real safety prescription glasses with the side protectors. The place I'm going to (attached to a major University in Boston ) has safety glasses that go to a different standard than ANSI; I forget the initials they used, but they claim its equal. After searching on-line for the ANSI standards and these standards, I'm wondering if it's worth the bother to match them up and just get them. But why don't they don't have any "cool" glasses?

And while I agree about the use of safety glasses, is ANSI the only standard to go by? Can I go with an equal standard?

And how come there are not more safety glasses in stores that fit over regular glasses? You'd a think with all us people with glasses there would be a bigger market.

Originally Posted by Allison

Per last years rules as Eric stated above (note: this could change this year) the clear and amber ones on that page were legal while the smoke and mirror ones were not.

We only deal in real stuff here -- no smoke and mirror magic! (sorry)