20th June 2006, 01:49 PM
Compulsory wearing of safety eyewear on site is usually a knee-jerk reaction by a principal contractor following a couple of instances of some non-archaeologists getting dust in their etes or similar.
Depending on the nature and quality of eyewear provided, it can actually increase the potential for accidents rather than decrease it.
If you wear presecription glasses then you really must have protective eyewear that is designed to be work over these, otherwise the eyewear creates problems with focusing etc. and with edge vision and spatial awareness.
If you are forced by an employees to wear protective eyewear, insist on some really funky mirror-style ski-goggle ones.
Beamo
Depending on the nature and quality of eyewear provided, it can actually increase the potential for accidents rather than decrease it.
If you wear presecription glasses then you really must have protective eyewear that is designed to be work over these, otherwise the eyewear creates problems with focusing etc. and with edge vision and spatial awareness.
If you are forced by an employees to wear protective eyewear, insist on some really funky mirror-style ski-goggle ones.
Beamo