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RJ-AZ

12-18-2004 18:28:08




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Our super safety man jumped our new hire for welding while wearing contact lens"s. He said that welding while wearing contacts is a nono. Claims something about the eye drying out causing the contact to stick to the eyeball. First I have heard of this.




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fmrchuck

12-21-2004 13:23:33




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 18:28:08  
Check his credentials. He's an idiot.



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Mitchissippi

12-21-2004 12:25:37




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 18:28:08  
I've been wearing contacts for 10 years without any trouble. Sure sometimes I get dust in my eyes, but that doesn't seem to be anymore problem with the contacts than it is without them for me.

I stare at a computer 8 to 10 hours a day. I weld up something every weekend. When I'm at home, I'm usually in some kind of dust or trash.

I like em!

Mitch



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T_Bone

12-20-2004 03:52:37




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 18:28:08  
Hi RJ_AZ,

I asked a eye Doc about contact lens for welding and he replied all construction work should avoid the use of contacts as it will scratch the eye real bad.

Fuse the lens to the eye ball? I don't think so unless you took a spark on a direct eye ball hit! Then I think the contact lens would help not hender vs no contact lens.

I worked with several people that used contact lens that never had a problem other than constant eye irritation from the dust.

T_Bone

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NC Wayne

12-19-2004 16:22:13




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 18:28:08  
I'm 36 and have had contacts since 4th grade and have never had any major problems out of them. I've been welding, to one degree or another, since I was about 15. In the time sense I spent 6 years in the military working in shipboard engine rooms with the extreem heat, etc. Then two and a half years building truck bodies, where we tacked them together wearing only dark glasses and then doned helmets to weld them up. I've also worked around and over the acid vapor from the pickel tanks at a hot dip galvanizing plant, extreem amounts of dust doing maintenance at concrete plants, and just the general everyday things you get into working on heavy equipment. Except for the usual stuff that can irritate your eyes that would bother anyone contacts or not, I've never had any problems. I've also gone diving and been down to 110ft with them in with no problems. As for the diving they have to be gas permiable lenses since the old solids won't allow the pressure caught between the lens and your eye to eqyalize and that can cause major problems. As for the wives tale about welding causing them to stick to your eye, it's just that, a wives tale. Doing the kinds of work I've always done I asked many many questions as I got older and what my eye doctor told me was that anything you can do with normal vision you can do with contacts. If something is bad enough to damage your eyes it's gonna do it wether you have in contacts or not. The main problem is that the the contacts can pick up dust, etc and get dirty and that can cause problems, but wearing disposables or making sure you maintain your non-disposables and keep them clean and you'll never have any more problems than you'd have with 20/20 vision or glasses. Just my .02 as a long time lense wearer.

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RustyFarmall

12-19-2004 05:33:06




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 18:28:08  
I have never experienced any problems wearing contacts and welding.



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BobR

12-18-2004 21:55:21




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 18:28:08  
That's a new one on me!



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SHeiserman

12-18-2004 19:03:59




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 18:28:08  
Alot of contractors will make it a policy of no contacts, regardless of what job you perform. Makes it pretty simple. I wear Z-87 glasses and side shields, and have no trouble anywhere I go.



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RJ-AZ

12-18-2004 19:24:09




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to SHeiserman, 12-18-2004 19:03:59  
Yessir I beleive that dust and crud can cause problems with contact lens's. I can see where some contractors make a ruling agaist it. My second ex-wife had problems with dust and contacts when helping me on the farm. She was working ground ahead of the grain drill and she had to go to her regular glasses because of the irritation.



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Bob

12-18-2004 18:49:47




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 18:28:08  
Here's some sites to look at. It appears to be an "urban legend".



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RJ-AZ

12-18-2004 19:17:42




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to Bob, 12-18-2004 18:49:47  
Thanks for the links. Guess I coulda done a search.



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Nick from NE

12-18-2004 19:55:53




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 Re: Contacts and welding in reply to RJ-AZ, 12-18-2004 19:17:42  
In college I majored in welding technology and in the text books and the Hobart Welding Institute videos, it said that contact lenses "welding themselves to the eye" is totally false. The only problems people would have wearing contact lenses in a work environment would be problems with dust.



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