Tinted safety glasses part of preventing arc flash incidents in shop classes
Without strict adherence to safety rules, it is too easy to get hurt in school shop classes that involve welders and torches operating at every workstation.
In one incident, a student was at work under a Jeep chassis. His safety glasses had a slight tint and were making it hard to see in the dim light, so he took them off to get a better look. A few seconds later a bolt that was lying on the frame fell and hit him in the eye — fortunately, it didn’t cause anything more than a temporary ache.