Safety Goggles

Safety goggles are eye protection that forms a sealed or near-sealed barrier around the eyes, using a soft frame and an elastic strap rather than the open sides of ordinary safety glasses, so that flying particles, splashed liquids, dust, or fumes are blocked from reaching the eye from any angle rather than only from the front. The design answers industrial and laboratory tasks where a spark, a chip of metal, or a splash of chemical can approach from the side or from below, conditions where safety glasses alone leave a gap; ventilated designs use small baffled vents to reduce fogging without opening a path for liquid splash, while sealed chemical-splash goggles omit vents entirely for tasks where a liquid hazard outweighs the fogging problem. National standards bodies set separate impact and splash ratings for goggles, and many industrial workplaces require them by rule for specific tasks such as grinding, chemical handling, or working under machinery, rather than leaving the choice of eye protection to the worker.