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Document ID (ISN)54957
CIS number 90-1784
ISBN(s) 84-7425-102-8
Year 1986
Convention or series no. INSHT Norma MT-16
Author(s)
Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social
Title Universal-type framed safety glasses used against impact injury [Spain]
Original title Gafas de montura tipo universal para protección contra impactos [in Spanish]
Bibliographic information Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo, Torrelaguna 73, 28027 Madrid, Spain, 1986. 47p. Illus. 9 ref.
Abstract Technical standard on safety spectacles, brought into legal force by a Resolution of the Dirección General de Trabajo on 14 June 1978. Contents: definitions; classification; characteristics of and requirements for safety spectacles (frames, eyepieces); testing (flammability, corrosion, resistance to heat and humidity, traction resistance, visual field, structural and superficial defects, optical quality, transmission of visible light, impact resistance, resistance to water). In the appendix: ministerial Order dated 17 May 1974 on the type testing of personal protective equipment.
Descriptors (primary) Spain; personal protective equipment; impact testing; safety spectacles; equipment testing; face and eye protection
Descriptors (secondary) evaluation of equipment; flammability testing; standard; law; classification
Document type A - Laws, regulations, directives
Country / State or ProvinceSpain
Subject(s) Standards and directives with the force of law
Broad subject area(s) Mechanical hazards, transport
Browse category(ies) Face and eye protection
Personal protection