When it comes to safety eyewear there is no single perfect solution. Depending on your task at hand, several properties come into play: You need the right eyewear model, suitable lens material as well as matching lens tinting and coating. Here's a overview of typical fields of application along with our recommendations – and if you want to dig deeper into lens tints, we recommend checking out our interactive lens tinting advisor.

 

Mechanical risks

 
Working conditions Eyewear model lens material lens tint lens coating
Light and precision engineering spectacles PC clear uvex supravision AR (anti-reflet)
uvex supravision excellence
Assembly, maintenance spectacles PC clear uvex supravision excellence
Grinding, angle grinding spectacles
goggles
PC clear uvex supravision excellence
uvex supravision extreme
Turning, milling spectacles PC clear uvex supravision excellence
Dusty environments goggles PC clear uvex supravision excellence
uvex supravision extreme
Foundry cleaning goggles PC clear uvex supravision excellence
uvex supravision extreme
Forestry and agriculture spectacles PC

clear
amber
grey 23 %

uvex supravision excellence
uvex supravision extreme

Chemical risks

 
Working conditions Eyewear model lens material lens tint lens coating
Laboratory spectacles
goggles
PC
CA
clear uvex supravision sapphire
uvex supravision excellence
Working with acids and galvanic media goggles PC
CA
clear uvex supravision excellence
uvex supravision extreme

Optical risks

 
Working conditions Eyewear model lens material lens tint lens coating
Spot welding
Soldering
Oxygene cutting
Gas welding, braze welding
Welders assistant
Foundries
Furnaces
spectacles
goggles
PC welding shade uvex infradur
uvex infradur plus
Outdoors – sunglare spectacles PC grey
brown
silver mirror
uvex supravision excellence
uvex supravision extreme
Offshoring/maritime spectacles PC variomatic
polavision
uvex supravision variomatic
uvex polavision
Strong lighting, glare spectacles PC CBR 65
silver mirror 53 %
uvex supravision excellence
uvex supravision extreme
Mixed lighting spectacles PC clear uvex supravision AR (anti-reflet)

Other risks

 
Working conditions Eyewear model lens material lens tint lens coating
Oil and gas spectacles
overspecs
goggles
PC clear uvex supravision plus
Plant visitors spectacles
overspecs
PC clear uvex supravision excellence
uvex supravision sapphire
uncoated