Sunlight, glare, dim interiors, blue light – all kinds of lighting in the workplace brings its own set of challenges. The right lens tint is essential for the workers safety, health, productivity and comfort.
When the worker is wearing the right lens tint, not only will this help protect the eyes from the hazards of the job at hand, it will also help lessen eye strain, fatigue and headaches. This can result in fewer instances of workers removing their safety glasses from their face due to discomfort, thereby keeping them safer.
How to find the right tint lens for your safety eyewear?
When selecting safety eyewear there are a number of factors that need to be considered.
To choose the right tint for the workers it is important to understand the work environment and type of tasks of the workers. To help, consider having an audit conducted of your workers’ safety eyewear needs.
Pay close attention to:
- All positions and tasks requiring safety eyewear
- Light sources found in the different work places
- Risk to workers’ eyes
uvex lens tint options include:
- Clear: A clear lens provides good vision for general, indoor applications where medium impact protection is essential. It also has the highest VLT 80% +, making it the most common for indoor use.
- Amber: uvex amber tint provides high visibility and greater contrast in different light situations. Amber lenses are typically used in poorly lit working environments including night-time and early morning outdoor applications.
- Grey: If you work in any outdoor environment with prolonged sun exposure, whether bright or partially sunny, grey tint blocks natural glare and sun glare so that you’re not putting constant strain on your eyes.
- Polarized: Reflected light affects countless workers by causing increased glare and reducing visibility. Glare typically happens when waves of light bounce off reflective surfaces. Because the surface is horizontal, the light is reflected horizontally. When you are wearing polarized safety eyewear, the surface blocks the glare by filtering out the horizontal light waves. By removing or reducing glare, polarised lenses improve visual perception, enhance clarity and colour definition. This leads to less eye strain. Polarized lenses are ideal in environments where surfaces reflect bright sunlight, such as water, large metal containers, big sheets of glass.
- uvex CBR75 and uvex CBR65: CBR65 and CBR75 are ideal for people working indoors under harsh light conditions, such as strong LED lighting, neon, or very bright environments; for those in changing light environments, either indoor or outdoor; and for those that require high levels of concentration or undertake close inspection work. *Please refer to your risk assessment
uvex offer lens tinting solutions for every light environment; from clear lens to grey lens, to protect the workers' eyes from the harsh Australian sun.