Safety glass storage and student use

[Seth Mallory]

Each student buys their own safety glasses. The team sells them at cost. You loose them you buy another pair. Each student has a bin on a rack to put personal items and store their glasses. We have loaners for guests and mentors. If the money is a issue the team will provide glasses.' Some students go their entire career on the team with only one pair.

[Billfred]

Past teams I've been on have had a bucket-o-glasses, but I always bought a pair (Western Safety, $2 a pair at Harbor Freight, because they fit my head without being pinchy) that stayed in the car with me.

Were I starting a team now (oh, wait...), I'd be inclined to say BYO Safety Glasses and maintain a stash for visitors and slackers.

[JustbeingJFK]

We have tried a lot of things to storage safety glasses.

1.) We had a bin and we just threw safety glasses in there, hard to find glasses and they all didn't fit in the bin

2.) We got a shoe hanger for safety glasses and put our names on it., Bad for people that were short (me) and bugs got in them (ewwww...)

3.) We got this box that has a door and individual cubbies so we labeled them and that was the best one and we use this currently

And so we know whose glasses are whose, we decorate them with sharpies. Which is really fun,

Our team has just started a rule that if you don't return your glasses back to the workshop or lose them, you have to pay $1.

[nicholsjj]

It never goes wrong to attach a 1/4" dowel rod to the wall and hang them up that way. We usually keep enough for ~25 students to wear if we are having a busy work day.These are a collection from over the years that we just hang on the rod. Our mentors usually buy a new pair every year and donate to the rod which usually makes up for the occasional safety glasses that grow legs.

[Ernst]

We have some pegboard by the door to our workshop with hooks for safety glasses. There's an overflow bin sitting right next to it.

We don't try to regulate them, though. It just seems like too much effort for what you could gain. I can see the benefits of the added responsibility, but it's a lot easier to just have a rack and a bin and restock them once in awhile.

[Ben Martin]

We keep a bin of inexpensive safety glasses on hand at all times. They aren't super comfortable, so if students want higher quality ones, they are welcome to bring their own.

Safety glasses get lost from time to time, and when that happens, we just replenish the stock with more inexpensive safety glasses. The amount spent on them is minimal, so we don't lose sleep over lost safety glasses.