The Reporter: Oct 1994, Vol.5, No.3
Environmental Safety

The Health Sciences bookstore now stocks a small selection of safety eye glasses and goggles. University policy requires eye protection for individuals working with open sources of chemicals in teaching, clinical, or research laboratories or in other areas. Only safety goggles provide complete protection from splashes and fumes, but safety glasses offer protection against relatively small volumes of chemicals.

Eye protection also should be worn to protect individuals exposed to dusts, mists, aerosols, and flying objects.

Activities for which eye protection is required include using chemicals, biological agents, biological tissues, and liquids in open vessels; stirring, mixing, or distilling liquids; washing laboratory equipment, animal cages, and glassware; working in a machine shop; glassblowing; washing, stripping, and waxing floors; or using solvents or cleaning solutions to clean machinery and equipment.

The Office of Environmental Health and Safety may be contacted at 305-6780 (ext. 66780) for further information.