Section 7-407 - Protective eye device. - Maryland Statutes

§ 7-407. Protective eye device.
 

(a)  "Industrial quality eye protective device" defined.- In this section, "industrial quality eye protective device" means a device that meets the standards of the American Standard Safety Code for Head, Eye, and Respiratory Protection, Z 2.1-1959, adopted by the American Standards Association, Incorporated. 

(b)  Protective eye device required in certain courses.- Each student and teacher in a school or other educational institution shall be required to wear an industrial quality eye protective device at all times while working in: 

(1) A career and technology classroom or laboratory that involves the use of or exposure to: 

(i) Hot molten metal; 

(ii) Milling, sawing, turning, shaping, cutting, or stamping of any solid material; 

(iii) Heat treatment, tempering, or kiln firing of any metal or other material; 

(iv) Gas or electric arc welding; 

(v) Repair or servicing of any vehicle; 

(vi) Any caustic or explosive material; or 

(2) A chemical or combined chemical-physical laboratory that involves any caustic or explosive chemical or hot liquid or solid. 

(c)  Supply and purchase of protective eye devices.-  

(1) The school may furnish industrial quality eye protective devices to its students and teachers and to any visitor to its classrooms or laboratories specified in subsection (b) of this section. 

(2) The school may buy these protective eye devices in large quantities and sell them at cost to its students and teachers. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 77, § 89; 1978, ch. 22, § 2; 1996, ch. 10, § 16; ch. 77.]