Steve,

insisting that safety glasses are worn around the entire factory seems a bit over the
top.  Can't you just use the standard practice of using floor markings (say red
coloured adhesive tape or something) to designate areas where safety glasses must be
worn, and educating the employees about why the glasses are needed in that area?
Sticking up some large signs informing people that glasses must be worn would remind
people what the tape on the floor was for.

It sounds as if the company's insistence on glasses throughout the production area isnt
working anyway, and they are wasting their time in the long term trying to dictate
people into following rules that make no sense to them.

By the way, what is a 'whiney butt' - it sounds like something you do after eating
beans?

Regards,

Chris Murphy

"Stephen R. Gregory" wrote:

> Hey Ya'll!
>
> I know this is gonna' be one of them questions that I'll probably regret
> asking, but what the hey, I'm gonna ask anyway...
>
> Our plant like others I've worked at, require that we all wear safety glasses
> when on the production floor. I know that they do provide protection...I've
> read the stories like many of you have; "I was doing this and all of a
> sudden, POW! a lead clipping (or solder splash, whatever...) hits me right in
> my safety glass lense! Thank goodness I had my safety glasses on!"
>
> They do work, no argument. But I think there's a time and place for
> everything. Safety glasses take some getting used to especially if you don't
> normally wear glasses, and there hasn't been a pair that I've put on that
> didn't have at least a little parallax when looking through them. If I want
> to really look close at placement on a 0402 or something like that, I'll
> slide them down to the tip of my nose and look over the lenses so I can see
> things clearly.
>
> My operators are starting to really complain now because there's been a real
> crack-down on making sure everybody has their safety glasses on. They have
> the same complaint that I have, when you need to see accurately looking at
> very tiny objects, the glasses are a hindrance...in my opinion.
>
> Does anybody else my view? Or am I just being a "whiney-butt"?
>
> I think that there are places that safety glasses should be worn, I have no
> problem putting them on when I'm around the wave solder, but I don't think
> they should be required in surface mount. "But...but...Steve, the machine
> could fly apart and someone could get a eye put out!" If that's the case, I
> should put my glasses on when I go to the breakroom and microwave some
> popcorn...the darn thing could blow up and put an eye out.
>
> Are there any of you out there that have designated areas that safety glasses
> are worn and other places on the production floor that they're not required?
> Or is it always a blanket rule that no matter where you're at on the
> production floor safety glasses are required...
>
> I know I'm gonna regret this...
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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