What are the employers obligations when eye and face protection is not required but employees wear eye and face protection of their own accord?
The employer must implement those elements of the written eye and face protection program necessary to ensure that any employee using eye and face protection voluntarily is medically able to use that PPE, and that the eye and face protection is cleaned, stored, and maintained so its use does not present a health hazard to the user. Also, employers must provide the voluntary eye and face protection users with the information contained in OSHA’s Eye and Face Protection Standard 29 CFR 1910.133 Employers are not required to include in a written eye and face protection program those employees whose only use of eye and face protection involves the voluntary use of PPE.
