Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 053 - Workforce Services, Department of
Sub-Agency 0011 - OSHA - Oil & Gas Well Drilling
Chapter 4 - PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
Section 4-2 - Eye and Face Protection

(i) The use of protective eye and face equipment where there is a potential of injury that can be prevented by such equipment shall be required. In such cases, the use of a type of protector suitable for the work to be performed shall be required. No unprotected person shall knowingly be subjected to a hazardous environmental condition. Suitable eye protectors shall be required where machines or operations present the hazard of flying objects, glare, liquids, injurious radiation, or a combination of these hazards.

(ii) Protectors shall meet the following minimum requirements:

(iii) Employees whose vision requires the use of corrective lenses and spectacles, and who are required by these rules and regulations to wear eye protection, shall be required to wear goggles or spectacles of one of the following types:

(iv) Every protector shall be distinctly marked to facilitate identification of the manufacturer.

(v) When limitations or precautions are indicated by the manufacturer, they shall be transmitted to the user and care taken to see that such limitations and precautions are strictly observed.

(vi) Design, construction, testing, and use of devices for eye and face protection shall be in accordance with American National Standard for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection, ANSI Z87.1- Current Edition.