The risk assessment should evaluate the potential for an eye injury to occur and should determine the type of eye protection to be worn. Pouring The above list is not inclusive and you should consider all procedures that involve the potential for splash. Past accidents involving a splash to the eye would indicate a situation that requires eye protection. An employee working adjacent to an activity that requires eye protection, may require the adjacent employee to use eye protection. The use of corrosives and injurious chemicals would definitely require eye protection.
Injurious chemicals cause tissue destruction at the site of contact.
For example, methylene chloride or methylethylketone peroxide. Refer to the MSDS for assistance in determining the injurious nature of chemicals and for recommendations on eye protection. In the Chemistry Department, all employees or visitors are required to where eye protection whenever they enter the lab due to their Department protocol and the high use of chemicals. In other laboratories or chemical use areas, eye protection must be worn whenever liquid chemicals are used or handled or the probability of an eye injury exists. At the MSU Power Plant, employees wear eye and face protection when transferring corrosives and handling water treatment chemicals.