The Purpose Of Safety Glasses: Essential Workplace Protection
Eye injuries can happen at any time, but safety glasses provide a simple and effective way to protect your vision. Let’s take a closer look at why safety glasses are essential for everyone working on site.
Safety glasses protect your eyes against light and moderate impacts from flying projectiles that might fly up and hit you while you're working.
When you're on a busy worksite with heavy tools and machinery, a chunk of metal or a splash of nasty chemicals can fire up at you out of nowhere.
This can lead to a serious eye injury if you're not wearing the right eye protection.
Over 10,000 Aussies are hospitalised each year due to sustained eye injuries on the job. As well as the cost to people's health, that’s a heck of a lot of downtime, just because people weren’t wearing the right protection.
Many eye injuries happen when workers skip safety glasses or use the wrong ones - leaving them exposed to the everyday dangers on Aussie worksites.
What's worse, around 40% of workers don't even know what kind of safety eyewear they should be using. Don't be that muppet!
It's simple...
If you wear AS/NZS 1337.1 certified safety glasses, your eyes are protected from the dangers the worksite can throw at you.
Key takeaways:
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Most workplace eye injuries are preventable with the right safety glasses.
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Certified safety glasses are vital for protecting your eyes at work.
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Choosing certified safety eyewear is key to staying safe.
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Eye safety should always be a priority on the job.
Protecting your vision should never be an afterthought—equip yourself with the right protective eyewear.
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Common Workplace Hazards That Require Safety Glasses
Types of Safety Glasses and Their Specific Purposes
Why Safety Glasses Are Essential in Every Workplace
How to Choose the Right Safety Glasses for Your Workplace
What are Safety Glasses?
Safety glasses are made to protect your eyes from flying dirt, debris or even harmful chemicals. These bad boys are built tough and are impact-resistant. They're either a wrap or have side shields to make sure you're fully protected from all angles.
What do they do?
Safety glasses act as a barrier between your eyes and potential hazards.
They help prevent:
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Acute Injuries: Cuts, punctures, or foreign objects entering the eye.
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Long-Term Damage: From prolonged exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light or eye strain
Common Workplace Hazards That Require Safety Glasses
1) Impact Hazards
On construction sites or manufacturing yards, flying bits of metal, glass, and dust are inevitable. Without safety glasses, you’re asking for trouble and putting your eyes at risk.
2) Chemical Hazards
If you’re handling any sort of chemical, whether it's in a lab or cleaning up on-site, even a small stray splash could cause some serious eye damage. Your safety glasses are a necessity.
3) Radiation Hazards
Working outdoors, welding, or even medical imaging exposes your eyes to dangerous UV, infrared, or blue light. Safety glasses are designed to filter out harmful light to protect you against these dangers.
4) Biological Hazards
In healthcare or any job involving blood and bodily fluids, safety eyewear prevents infections and contamination.
Types of Safety Glasses and Their Purposes
Impact-Resistant Safety Glasses
Certified safety glasses are built to take serious hits to protect you from any impact.
UV Protection Glasses
If you’re out in the harsh Aussie sun, your safeties will block UV rays, to guard against eye damage from the sun.
Prescription Safety Glasses
If you need vision correction, no worries! Prescription safety glasses give you both clear vision and solid protection.
Anti-Fog and Anti-Scratch Coatings
These coatings help you take on tough Aussie environments on a daily basis, keeping your vision clear, and avoiding scratches.
Choosing the right protective eyewear to take on whatever the worksite throws at you.
Why Safety Glasses Are Essential in Every Workplace
Here’s why:
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Prevention of Eye Injuries: Safety glasses prevent up to 90% of serious eye injuries. That’s a pretty solid reason to wear them!
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Meet Safety Regulations: Safety glasses are required on Australian construction sites, mine sites and many other workplace. Wearing AS/NZS 1337.1 certified safeties has you covered.
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Cost Savings: Eye injuries are expensive. By investing in safety glasses, you’re cutting down on medical bills, insurance claims, and downtime.
How to Choose the Right Safety Glasses for You
1) Assess Workplace Hazards: What risks are you dealing with? Dust, chemicals, UV light? Find the glasses that protect against them.
2) Comfort and Fit: If the glasses don’t fit right, they won’t do the job. Make sure they’re comfy, even for long shifts.
3) Check Safety Certification: If your safeties are AS/NZS 1337.1 certified, you know they're good to go and will provide adequate protection.
Avoid eye injuries by investing a good pair of reliable safety glasses.
Why Choose SafeStyle
SafeStyle is the original pair of stylish safety eyewear. We’re all about protecting your eyes on the job, without compromising style. All SafeStyle pairs are AS/NZS 1337.1 certified, so you know you’re protected, whichever style you choose.
SafeStyle Safety Glasses:
SafeStyle has a wide choice of frame styles, designed to suit everyone:
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Fusions - Our iconic and hugely popular rectangular style frame. The most popular pair of safety glasses out there.
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Fusions XL - Our iconic Fusions, made 15% bigger for larger headed legends.
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Primes - With a one-piece frame this oversized safety frame makes a serious statement.
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Cruisers - A circular frame, retro style frame that let's you dance effortlessly 'from the worksite to the weekend'.
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Classics - The OG frame that started the stylish safety glasses revolution.
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Harps - With an accentuated brow, this could be the most stylish pair of safety glasses ever.
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Rapids - Our full-wrap design, built for those who need maximum protection and all-day comfort.
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Blockers - A lightweight pair of stylish safety goggles with anti-fog and a flexible seal.
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Lites - The ultimate stylish safety glasses for healthcare professionals, made of bacteria killing materials.
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Phantoms - Safety certified eyewear for athletes, designed for eye protection and sports performance.
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Fusions Kids - Our iconic Fusions frame, designed to protect kids from whatever your little legends are up to.
SafeStyle pairs are available in multiple lens options, including clear, tinted, polarised, photochromic, and blue light blocking lenses, to suit whatever you face 'from the worksite to the weekend'.
Prescription Safety Glasses:
At SafeStyle, we offer stylish prescription safety glasses. Fusions, Classics, Cruisers, and Fusions XL are available with prescription lenses.
With SafeStyle's Prescription range, you can take on everything life throws at you, without having to worry about vision correction.
Simply upload your Single Vision Prescription online, or find your local SafeStyle Prescription Stockist to shop Progressive, Bifocal, Vocational or Single Vision safety glasses.
Accessories and Essentials:
The SafeStyle Essentials range has all the other gear you need to protect you 'from the worksite to the weekend'.
We've got you covered with eyewear accessories to protect your pairs whilst they protect you!
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Essentials: Get elite level sun protection with the Essentials Hats, travel tough to and from work with the SafeStyle Luggage Range and stay hydrated with the Big Juicy 1L Water Bottle.
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Accessories. Including lanyards, floating lanyards, hard cases, and XL hard cases to complement and protect your eyewear.
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Merchandise. Be a true SafeStyle legend a rock our merch range of caps and beanies.
Certifications and Compliance:
All SafeStyle safety glasses are certified to meet Australian, New Zealand, and US safety standards. All our pairs ensure reliable protection across various industries and applications.
Wrapping It Up
Safety glasses are an absolute necessity to prevent eye injuries. Whether you’re on the job or off to the weekend, having the right eyewear makes all the difference.
Upgrade to a pair of SafeStyle glasses today and get the best safety glasses out there. Stay safe, look good 'from the worksite to the weekend'.
