Safety Glasses Technical Advice Centre

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Looking for welding goggles that can be worn over spectacles. Look no further!

Q: I’m looking for some gas welding goggles that can be worn over spectacles (shade 5 or what ever is available) only looking for 1 or 2 do you have anything in stock?   A: These Bolle Blast shade 5 welding goggles will do the job. They will fit over spectacles and will work with a […]

Are these ‘Occupational Varifocal Lenses’ lenses something that you can supply with your safety frames?

Q: I’ve just had a bad experience with Specsavers and am looking for a different supplier. They have the JCB Safety Frames, so I found a pair which I liked and wanted to order my existing lenses, what they call ‘Occupational Varifocal Lenses’ which give a larger mid distance for computer use. However they could not process […]

How do I get ESP lenses in a goggle?

Q: I am looking for glasses with an ESP lens but really like the Bolle Tracker II style. Can I get these safety glasses/goggles with an ESP lens? It’s quite difficult to find an ESP lens in the hybrid safety glasses style, such as the Tracker model. But there a couple of solutions to this […]

Introducing the Rush with Twilight lens

We are happy to introduce a new addition to our Bolle safety glasses range the Rush The Bolle Rush safety glasses comes with a Twilight lens that is ideally used for outdoor use in low light conditions. It’s effective at reducing the damaging effects of blue light, as it combines ESP lens technology with a […]

New Product! Safety Glasses with reading lenses

Customers are now looking for quality safety glasses that offer the same high level of protection and have a reading lens area. It’s a nice alternative to getting the full prescription safety glasses if you don’t need to go down that route. Instead get a pair of Bolle IRI-S safety glasses that come in reading […]

A 5 step guide to ordering your Prescription Safety Glasses

Prescription Safety Glasses

Our Prescription Safety glasses are available in 3 lens types Single Vision, Bifocal and Progressives (Varifocals). These can be used for several different purposes such as for playing sports, working in an office or in industrial environments. For more information on the process involved please have a look at the prescription glasses page. Where you […]

What are the best all round lenses?

By volume the most popular lens chosen is clear by far. That said, it is not necessarily the best if you only intend to have one pair. The UK’s weather changes so frequently you ideally want a couple of pairs to adapt easily but most will try and get away with a single pair. If […]

Safety Glasses Lens Types

Every set of safety eyewear on our site include high quality, optical quality 1 lenses. For more information on what this means see the Standards Advice section. Most of the glasses are however available in different lens types, each of which is especially designed for different light conditions. Clear Lenses The clear lens is the […]