I have prescription varifocal safety glasses. Not cheap at around £150, but my eyes are valuable particularly as only one works. Very much worth it IMHO.

BW

Andries

Full face visor e.g. Machinemart 040433610, Vitrex 334100 Safety Shield. Much cheaper than prescription safety glasses and shields your whole face.

Glasses and goggles don't really mix anyway, I find the goggles tend to push the glasses away from their optimum position.

Most one stop shops supply Over Safety Glasses that fit over and around existing glasses I have to use them when I go into various factories try Arco and the like

I bought some "Infield terminator" that take inserts – they are very comfortable and I don't have to worry about the prescription part getting damaged as you can buy the outer bit separately. I get mine from the local builders (I have an account which helps) but you can look here **LINK** and you will find them a bit down the page on the left. They also wrap around preventing anything getting down the sides. I only have prescription for close work but I would think you can have them in every prescription you want. Price for me was £45 if I recall. You have to get your prescription from the opticians (free, it's yours anyway) and they also want to know the distance between your pupils which the optician will also tell you.

Mark

My last job in the engineering trade was spent in the tool and cutter department. Both my work mate and I found it impossible to do close work wearing safety goggles as we could not see detail properly – trying to wear them for prolonged periods whilst regrinding say a batch of 1/4" ball end cutters was torture on the eyeballs with headaches common. No matter how well you treated them they scratched easily and after only a short period of use became cloudy following frequent cleaning.

After many complaints the company relented and sent us to the optician for sight tests and we were both prescribed safety spectacles (the ones with the Perspex side guards). No magnification was necessary as both of us had A1 vision. These proved to be excellent and being resistant to scratching were well up for the job in hand.

Rik

Update:

Just called in to my opticians today 'should have gone to …', HSE & Insurance Co's will not allow reglazing of safety specs, ordered new pair, picked out personal choice frame (light metal) with ultra large Bifocal section for close work (non standard so extra cost), scratch resistant coating, polycarbonate side shields…£119.

George