dieseldog999:
for what possible reasonable reason would you need to wear safety glasses when fuelling up? …just uk garbage…if its required at the beancounter companies,then why dont all filling stations let you fill without wearing them?..surely the same risk of sticking the nozzle in your eye and pulling the trigger? car drivers with petrol also??
+1
The worlds gone mad…I got a bollocking the other day for not having my Hi Viz fastened at the front!!!
wheelnutt:
Munchkin:
If your company requires you to wear safety glasses and you have a prescription it’s their responsibility to supply them.
Fairly sure that’s in H&S law.Sent from my X17 using Tapatalk
And of course since you are so adamant and didn’t just hear that around the watercooler at your last RDC, you should have no problem whatsoever giving us a link to that quoted section of the applicable H&S laws.
You could try Regulation 4 of the Personal Protective Equipment At work regulations 1992:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2966/regulation/4/made
Like Trooper says, the worlds gone mad. Having to dress up like an astronaut just to do normal day to day things. I hope that one day these ridiculous health and safety measures will get overturned in the name of common sense, otherwise we won’t be able to leave our homes (or even beds) without doing a risk assessment first.
merc0447:
, steel boots,
I bet there ■■■ heavy to walk in 
its coming over here as well …I wear glasses(reading) and when I was on the mixers we hauled into a oil pipeline pump station in winter anyway the h&s safety guy told me put normal safety glasses on over my glasses well they froze up and I couldn’t see jack ■■■■,so I took them off H&S guy put them back on!!..well I stopped pouring till the site manager came over to see what the hell was going on so I told him H&S guy wants me to wear the safety glasses over my own BUT they freeze up and I cant see a thing is that safe? manager gave me a look and asked the H&S guy to come and look at another part o the site 
. Another H&S thing on that site was the wearing off safety overalls (flame retardant) gloves and of course hat when even in the truck.They supplied the coveralls at the gate to put on top of our own safety coveralls was like a friggin rolly polly (they were washed sooo they couldn’t have been any good anyway).
Another weird thing was stop at the gate ,put overalls on and wait till a banksman came and walked in front of you all the way to the concrete pump ,on snow and ice really safe that was walk ing in front of a loaded truck on site going down ice covered slopes and the same when going to wash out the guy must have walked 10s o miles every day as only one mixer on site at one time and 100s o yards poured.
OVLOV JAY:
wheelnutt:
OVLOV JAY:
Do Employers Have to Pay For Prescription Safety Glasses in the UK?The company don’t have to offer prescription safety glasses, they do however have to supply over glasses. If the company supplied ones do not fit over standard glasses, and have to be worn instead of, the op would reasonably be able to either refuse to wear safety glasses, or refuse to refuel the vehicle
Nice try, from your link:
there is no legal guidance for prescription protection goggles.
Again, a commercial company/site. Still no definitive quote…
Shall we stick with RDC rumours?
Did you not read what I wrote? I said the company don’t have to provide prescription glasses
he can’t SEE! 
he’s not got his READING glasses on!