---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 142.27"
title: "33"
number: "142.27"
heading: "Eye and face protection."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/142.27"
---

# §142.27. Eye and face protection.

- (a) Personnel engaged in or observing welding, grinding, machining, chipping, handling hazardous materials, or acetylene burning or cutting shall wear the eye and face protector specified for the operation in Figure 8 of ANSI Z87.1.
- (b) Eye and face protectors must be maintained in good condition.
- (c) Each eye and face protector must be marked with the information required by ANSI Z87.1 for that type of protector.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C 1333(d)(1), 1347(c), 1348(c); 49 CFR 1.46(z).

### Source

Source: CGD 79-077, 51 FR 25059, July 10, 1986, unless otherwise noted.