For my Senior design project I am currently conducting a survey to investigate the use of safety glasses while working. Please help me gain some insight on this topic by completing the following survey. Feel free to PM them to me or post them on the forum.
Survey
Have you worked with power tools?
Yes No
Have you ever been exposed to flying debris, such as dust or chips?
Yes No
When you use power tools and/or are exposed to debris, do you wear safety glasses?
Yes No
If yes, then what percentage of the time do you wear safety glasses?
0-20% 21-40% 41-60% 61-80% 81-100%
Have you ever been injured as a result of not wearing safety glasses?
Yes No
6. Do you have any reasons why you do not wear safety glasses? (Please explain)
1: yes
2: yes
3: yes
4: 81-100%
5: no
6: no, I do not have any reason to not wear safety glasses. Every time I work with power tools I think to myself, do I want to be able to see or not? After I put mu safety glasses on. Even with safety glasses I have gotten particles of what I am working on in my eyes though.
It depends on material, if I’m working with wood then I probably won’t. Metal yes. I also wear glasses so depending on available safety glasses, they may provide no additional protection (the safety glasses may not sit flush against my face because of their design). Metal working is usually done in a shop where they require safety glasses, but sometimes outside of the shop, I wear safety glasses ~70% of the time.
Edit: If there are students around, I will wear safety glasses to set an example. I’ll admit I have bad habits.
I wear prescription glasses. Most safety glasses either do not fit over them or are very uncomfortable with them. I have “close-up” prescription safety glasses for working in the shop or pit, but I sometimes forget to put them back on after switching to my regular glasses for clear distance vision.
Have you ever been exposed to flying debris, such as dust or chips?
Yes
When you use power tools and/or are exposed to debris, do you wear safety glasses?
Yes
If yes, then what percentage of the time do you wear safety glasses?
61-80%
Have you ever been injured as a result of not wearing safety glasses?
No
6. Do you have any reasons why you do not wear safety glasses? (Please explain)
A few. First, if I need one hole and the safety glasses are someplace else(i.e. I’d have to drive to get them or walk in excess of 200 yards). If I’m in a hurry, and don’t have time to look for them. I already have glasses so if the debris is minor enough, I tend to ignore it.
I would just like to make a note to my answers: I do use power tools all of 3 times a year.(If you want to exclude my data, do so. However, I thought I’d fill it out in case you needed more responses.) Also, while I did post my reasons for sometimes not wearing safety glasses, they are NOT good reasons. There really isn’t a good reason for not wearing safety glasses in those circumstances.
2. Have you ever been exposed to flying debris, such as dust or chips?
Yes No
3. When you use power tools and/or are exposed to debris, do you wear safety glasses?
Yes No
4. If yes, then what percentage of the time do you wear safety glasses?
0-20% 21-40% 41-60% 61-80% 81-100%
5. Have you ever been injured as a result of not wearing safety glasses?
Yes No 6. Do you have any reasons why you do not wear safety glasses? (Please explain) A… NO I am not stupid!, As others have stated I like my eyes and plan on using until the day I die!!
No
(fine, I got hit in the face with a moon rock while not wearing safety glasses, but doesn’t anyone? In any case, it wasn’t major or anything, it just stung a little bit because of some exposed plastic)
I always wear safety glasses while working with power tools, or if I’m around dust and chips (especially dust, see above picture). I rarely don’t wear them, and if I don’t, it’s normally because I deem the situation safe enough to not need them (simply moving the robot, packing things, some demos).
They pinch my normal glasses, and conventional add on side shields don’t cover my preferred models well enough. The large size safeties work but get very uncomfortable around the ears.
And then there are those times when you’re wearing safety glasses, and the stuff gets in there anyways. I was doing some work on a car for a friend over the past couple weeks, and got some stuff in my eye, probably while grinding. After about a week I decided I really needed to go see the eye guy, and he spent a minute getting the chunk out.
Maybe I need to wear a face shield over my glasses when I’m grinding?
But I think I’m doing ok, it’s been 20 years since I had to visit the eye guy. And I can still see pretty well (my arms are getting shorter though).
Have you ever been exposed to flying debris, such as dust or chips?
**Yes ** No
When you use power tools and/or are exposed to debris, do you wear safety glasses?
Yes No Sometimes
If yes, then what percentage of the time do you wear safety glasses?
0-20% 21-40% 41-60% 61-80% 81-100%
Have you ever been injured as a result of not wearing safety glasses?
Yes No
Do you have any reasons why you do not wear safety glasses? (Please explain)
I don’t generally wear them at work. The glasses I have there get used maybe 10 days a year due to how uncomfortable it can be to wear them 8-10 hrs a day every day. I put them on for high risk work and that’s about it…
At robotics I wear them to set an example to the students and because it is shop policy.
At home I don’t generally wear them unless there is high risk. I don’t think I ever wore glasses before I started doing high school shop/ robotics…
