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Debunking the Myths About Safety Glasses

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  The long-standing list of myths about safety glasses has made people skeptical about the choices they make to ensure their safety. A lot of what you hear may or may not be true. To make your life a bit easier, we have listed some of the most common myths about safety glasses. Let's have a look at those myths debunking. Tinted lenses are a must for protection from UV rays. The different tints on lenses are there to aid visibility and do not provide UV protection. Tinted glasses do not make up for UV rays protection replacing the actual prescription safety glasses providing UV protection, in fact, shaded sunglasses that do not provide UV protection does more harm than having no sunglasses on at all since they dilate the pupil and open it up exposing more risk of harmful UV light to enter. However, you can always count on a pair of safety glasses as the lenses are fortunately made of some form of polycarbonate, which blocks 99.% of UV light naturally. Instead of opting for tinted g