Eye & Face Protection from BOC – comfort and safety in style

BOC offers a wide range of general and prescription safety spectacles, face shields, specialist laser eyewear, welding helmets and accessories to ensure that your workforce has appropriate eye and face protection at work. There are estimated to be more than 600 global eye injuries daily caused by a lack of protective eyewear compliance in work areas containing risks. Help protect casualties in your workplace by ensuring appropriate safety products are used.

Choosing the right eye protection

Brands such as North, Bolle, Peltor, Pulsafe and UVEX are at the forefront of design and innovation, enabling us to offer a choice of affordable, comfortable, stylish and protective safety products that your employees will be happy to wear.

Under EU PPE Law, employers must provide appropriate eye and face protection to employees at risk in the workplace. Staff in a variety of markets such as construction, mining, manufacturing and medical environments are vulnerable to these hazards, which typically fall into the following categories:

• Mechanical hazards such as dust, metal, sand, wood and rock particles
  which can perforate the cornea, iris or lens areas of the eye
• Thermal risks including hot liquids, flames and molten splashes that can
  burn or perforate the cornea and skin; potentially causing eye loss
• Chemical/Biological hazards comprising acids, alkalis, solvents and blood
  which could burn the cornea and skin
• Radiation such as ultraviolet, infrared and laser light that can burn the retina
  or cornea and facial skin
• Electrical hazards including direct contact or electrical arc by short circuit which
  could burn or cut the cornea, retina or lens sections of the eye

Factors to consider when choosing your eye & face protection

• The potential risks and level of protection needed
• Any features required such as anti-scratch coating and lenses for specific light protection
• Climate variation and the need for anti-fog products
• The length of use and thus the level of user comfort required
• Products offering the best personal fit
• Integration with other PPE such as ear defenders and respirators
• Whether prescription or general eye protection is required
• Personal considerations including style preferences