Although many work environments require safety glasses to have clear lenses, others benefit from tinted lenses for brightness protection or enhanced contrast vision. Let's face it, we spend a lot of time at work. It's vital to take steps to ensure working conditions aren't negatively impacting our health. Selecting the correct tint for your safety glasses helps prevent macular degeneration and sleep problems, and even stabilizes your mood.
Tints
The lighting condition in your work environment determines the color of the tint you need. It's important to know the differences between each color so your safety glasses can perform their best to keep your eyes healthy and protected.
Amber/Yellow
Amber or yellow tints are able to make low-light environments appear brighter due to the large amount of light allowed to pass through the lenses. They also increase contrast and depth perception, and even block harmful blue light. This is helpful indoors, in overcast weather, or even in the shade.
Grey
A grey tint is primarily for brightness protection. It lets a minimal amount of light pass through your lenses, making it ideal in sunny, outdoor work environments. If you work outside in a sunny climate, safety glasses with a grey tint will shield your eyes from the intense bright light, preserving your eyes, and hey, maybe even saving you from a few wrinkles.
Rose/Copper
Rose or copper tints don't provide quite as much protection as a grey tint, but they're still recommended for an outdoor setting as they can be too dark to wear inside. These tints increase visual clarity by enhancing contrast and depth perception. Rose or copper tints are great if you work outside, but not in direct sunlight.
Green Smoke (G-15)
A green smoke, or G-15, tint is a middle-ground option between brown and grey. It provides more brightness protection than a brown tint, and more contrast vision than a grey. Green smoke is a neutral lens color, so it doesn't alter the way you view color.
Transitions
It's increasingly popular to get transitions lenses for your safety glasses because they self-adjust to adapt to changing light conditions. This is a great option if you find yourself going back and forth between indoors and outdoors, or bright light and shade, throughout your work day. Transitions lenses are versatile and available in 4 different types to perfectly suit the amount of lightening and darkening you need your lenses to accommodate. For everything you need to know about Transitions, visit Transitions Lenses: A Comparison of Each Type.
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