Protect your Eyes against Flying Sparks with Welding Plates and Lenses

Are you into a welding industry? If yes, then there are multiple activities that call for proper eye protection. To protect your eyes, welding plates and lenses have a special role to play. They work best in dealing with the bright light of the arc, bits of the molten slag that usually jump from the working area and the flying sparks. While dealing with the welding activities, it is significant for the welders to protect their eyes from the harmful debris radiation. 

Welding lenses are available both in glass and plastic. As most of the other sunglasses are tinted to absorb light while others are polarized or mirrored to reflect light, welding lenses are also available in different shades and are also coated in a mirrored gold finish for ultimate protection against fumes and oxides. Wearing welding lenses is important because they safeguard your eyes against photokeratitis, painful sunburn to the cornea which is usually caused by electromagnetic energy created by a flame or an arc. This form of radiant energy can severely damage the eyes of workers. The welding lenses also come with a shade number that offer necessary protection for the kind of work being done. It is the shade number which tells how much light radiation can be permitted to pass through the lens and your eyes of course. The higher the shade number is, the darker the filter will be and the less light radiation will be permitted to pass through.

So, understand the importance of protecting your eyes and use welding lenses if you into the hard core job of welding.