Safety question regarding vision

[Evert Timberg]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

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.