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Article: Choose the right lens tint for the job: lens colors enhance workplace performance & protect against harmful ultraviolet and infrared radiation.
- Article from:
- Industrial Safety & Hygiene News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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For many people, wearing sunglasses serves a basic purpose--shielding our eyes from the bright light of the sun and the uncomfortable glare that causes us to squint and strain. What we likely fail to consider, however, is that which we cannot see: the harmful infrared and ultraviolet radiation that stands to cause permanent damage to our eyes.
Individuals who endure prolonged exposure to this radiation--usually in the workplace--are particularly at risk. Tinted lenses are a critical component of protective eyewear and were developed to guard against these hazards, from the standard gray, brown or mirrored tints that the general public wears, to tints like orange ...