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NFPA Eye Protection

I have a question. I heard that according to the new NFPA standard on gear says that eye protection no longer has to be on helmets.

Is this true? Can anyone shed some light on this subjest?

To me it makes sence to keep your safety glasses or goggles in your pockets. If they are on your helmet they can get melted, smoked up, scratched during fire ground operations. I guess that is good for the guys that make goggles but bad for us if we have to replace them every couple of months.

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Permalink Reply by Josh on October 29, 2009 at 6:21pm: Yes the new NFPA guidelines say you no longer have to keep eye protection on your helmet to make it NFPA compliant you just have to have it on your person is all and of course the eye protection has to be NFPA compliant but im pretty sure you know that already; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed on October 30, 2009 at 12:14pm: Good follow up Josh with making sure that everyone understands that their eye protection has to be NFPA compliant itself. That seems to be a common misconception. Folks are of the impression that if their eyes are covered, they're good-to-go. Thats not the case.

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