# Anyone buy prescription safety glasses?  Got a good vendor?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 16, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-buy-prescription-safety-glasses-got-a-good-vendor/615923 "2012-03-16T02:41:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-buy-prescription-safety-glasses-got-a-good-vendor/615923/1 "2012-03-16T02:41:01Z")

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My prescription has changed again, and I need a new pair. Just single vision.

My company claims to pay for safety glasses - since OSHA requires it - but in practice they only ever pay up to $75 (which is very little, as anyone who actually buys glasses knows) and the only allowed vendor is Walmart. I did go to Walmart to check out their selection, and was deeply disappointed. They had 6 available frames. All were bulky, horrible, and looked 20 years out of date.

And I wear my safety glasses when I visit customers, so yeah, I’d rather not look like a tool. Considering my glasses will probably be about $250 total no matter where I buy them, I think I’ll just forgo the $75 pittance my company would give me for an awful ugly pair and get some that I actually like.

I was thinking about [these](http://www.rx-safety.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=47_86&products_id=391). Now, don’t let the $57.50 price fool you. When I actually put in the lenses and features (photochromic, scratch-resistant, high-index, low-glare) it’s around that $250 mark.

I’ve read through our company’s literature - apparently the “Z87 ANSI” is all that’s required. I spend time in both factories and labs (both chemical) so splash protection is probably the biggest thing I need.

Anyone have a good site? Or experience with the frames or site that I linked?

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-buy-prescription-safety-glasses-got-a-good-vendor/615923/2 "2012-03-16T02:43:03Z")

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Going to move this over to IMHO.