Leo,

Most of our Teaching Labs work under the campus & department rule for lab eyewear: goggles or glasses on everyone when anyone in the lab is working with chemicals or glassware – if you’re using the lab for a tutorial or exam, eyewear is not needed. If I see a student wearing goggles or glasses that don’t fit them, I try to engage them in evaluating what they’re getting from the eyewear and offer them some alternatives from my ever-expanding stock of styles and fits. Rx glasses need room under goggles and safety glasses, but different faces also need different goggles (to close the gaps). I’ll take their current pair in trade for something better, so they don’t lose their purchase cost.  

In our introductory labs – which are also our large services classes (General Chem & Intro O-Chem) – the Instructors maintain a goggles-only rule: indirectly vented chemical splash goggles on all students, TAs, Instructors & Staff. This provides the greatest protection for the most inexperienced  students & relieves the TA of checking whether the choice of goggles vs. glasses is correct.

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Sheila Kennedy, C.H.O.

Safety Coordinator | Teaching Laboratories

UCSD Chemistry & Biochemistry |MC 0303

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Office: (858) 534-0221 | Fax: (858) 534-7687
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