Impact Performance of Safety Eyecup Goggles

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• Personal Author:
  Campbell DL ; Wolfe RS
• Description:
  Eyecup safety goggles were evaluated to determine their suitability for use by United States workers. Twenty two models were given lens and frame impact tests. The overall performance of all the models was consistently poor. Thirty-one percent of the models tested failed the frame impact test, and 44 percent failed the lens impact test. The researchers conclude that the quality of eyecup goggles available to the workforce of the United States has not improved significantly since serious defects were first identified in a 1977 NIOSH survey. They recommend that companies who cannot evaluate impact resistance request a written statement of lens quality from the manufacturer. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Eye Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Safety Sense Organs
• Keywords:
  Evaluation Eye-protection Eye-protective-equipment Impact-properties Impact-strength NIOSH-Author Personal-protective-equipment Safety-equipment Safety-glasses
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-18
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00094217
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB83-174128
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 79-137, 1979 Jul; :1-18
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d556913fa6735118aba2ab43910b5720813c328e31f6360a0552f4d67767688a015f6e2d0a6da26695c4ba908a950be18633336f3ba6be6a69f1a380191e1003
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209376/cdc_209376_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.62 MB ]