What types of protective glasses are there? How to choose protective glasses?

Protective glasses are a kind of glasses that play a special protective role. The glasses used in different occasions have different requirements, such as surgical glasses used in hospitals, electric welding glasses, etc. Welding glasses, laser protective glasses for laser engraving, etc. Protective glasses are mainly used to prevent the eyes and face from being exposed to electromagnetic waves such as ultraviolet rays, infrared rays and microwaves, dust, smoke, metal and gravel fragments, and chemical solution sputtering.

Types of protective glasses: 1. Protective glasses against solid debris, mainly used for Protects against mechanical damage to the eyes by metal or stone fragments. Glasses and spectacle frames should be of strong construction and impact-resistant. The frame is provided with binding which shall have ventilation holes and may be protected with tempered glass, colloid bonded glass or copper mesh goggles. 2. Chemical solution protective glasses are mainly used to prevent chemical damage to the eyes caused by corrosive solutions. Ordinary flat lenses can be used, and the frame should be covered to prevent the solution from splashing. Usually used in laboratories, hospitals and other places, general medical glasses can be used for general use. 3. Anti-radiation Radiation protective glasses, used to prevent excessive ultraviolet rays and other radiation from harming the eyes. Lenses are made of special glass that either reflects or absorbs radiation but transmits a certain amount of visible light. The lens is plated with bright chrome, nickel, mercury or silver metal film, which can reflect radiation. Blue lenses absorb infrared, yellow-green lenses absorb both ultraviolet and infrared, and colorless leaded lenses absorb X-rays and gamma rays. For example, common welding glasses have relatively low requirements on the light transmittance of the lens, so the color of the lens is mostly black. 4. Laser protective glasses, as the name suggests, can prevent the laser from shining on the glasses. Therefore, the requirements for lenses are very high, such as the choice of light source, attenuation rate, light reaction time, optical density, light transmission effect, etc. Different nanometer (nm) lasers require lenses with different wavelength bands.

There are many kinds of protective glasses, including dust-proof glasses, impact-proof glasses, chemical glasses and optical radiation-proof glasses. The first three kinds of glasses seem to be colorless glass, but in fact, due to different protective effects, the characteristics of the lenses are obviously different. Some workers engaged in industrial production need to wear glasses, not for decoration and fashion, but to protect eyes from harmful factors. Therefore, these glasses are called safety glasses.

Workers engaged in electric welding, gas welding, steelmaking and glass blowing should wear anti-arc radiation glasses. The lenses of anti-arc radiation glasses have dark and light colors, which are designed according to different requirements. The selection should be properly selected according to the intensity of the arc light during operation. If the arc light is so strong that you need to wear light-colored protective glasses, some infrared rays will pass through the lenses and cause damage to the eyes, which will lead to occupational cataracts in the long run. On the contrary, if the arc is weak, wearing dark safety glasses for a long time will greatly reduce vision. Therefore, every worker who needs to wear protective glasses should understand the harmful factors in his working environment, wear appropriate safety glasses, and don't wear them indiscriminately.