Eye and face protection must be made available to all employees or visitors to areas where chemicals are used and stored.
Protective eye and face equipment must be worn where there is a reasonable probability of injury from hazardous chemicals. This document outlines when eye protection is needed, what type of eye protection is needed and lists sources for obtaining safety eyewear and prescription safety glasses.

Many laboratories on campus contain liquids, acids, bases and organic solvents that may present a splash hazard. Other nonlaboratory areas, like storerooms, farms, and maintenance areas may have corrosive or injurious chemicals or jobs that require eye protection be worn if the probability of an eye injury exists. These laboratories and other work areas will need to do a risk assessment and implement the eye and face protection policy accordingly. The risk assessment should evaluate the potential for an eye injury to occur and should determine the type of eye protection to be worn. Typical activities that would present the reasonable probability of eye injury include:

• Pipetting
  
• Opening centrifuge tubes
  
• Using syringes
  
• Mixing/vortexing
  
• Preparing solutions
  
• Titrations
  
• 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. Different chemicals will require different eye protection based on the pH, the potential for skin/eye damage and the quantity handled

The use of corrosives and injurious chemicals would definitely require eye protection. Liquid corrosive chemicals are those with a pH <= 4.0 or a pH >= 9. Solid chemicals are considered corrosive when in solution; they fall in the above pH range. A highly corrosive chemical has a pH <= 2 and >= 12.5. 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 wear 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.

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