Employer providing PPE?

Lucyjoanne

With the news that people are going to have to wear face coverings in shops it has got me thinking.

my workplace offers masks, but these cause my glasses to fog up when I work on the shop floor. Would I be right to ask them to supply a face shield as an alternative?

thank you!

unforeseen

Face shields can be worn. However the question is really whether it is up to the employer to provide it when they already supply a suitable mask. 
As an aside, nurses, whether they wear glasses or not, wear masks for 12 hours at a time.
Masks can be worn without fogging your glasses, you just have to adjust it correctly and possibly use a bit of tape below the eye to seal it. My daughter, who is a nurse, does this. 

unholyangel

Lucyjoanne said:

With the news that people are going to have to wear face coverings in shops it has got me thinking.

my workplace offers masks, but these cause my glasses to fog up when I work on the shop floor. Would I be right to ask them to supply a face shield as an alternative?

thank you!

To be fair, if it's anything like the legislation we (Scotland) seem to have enacted....it might specify you need to wear a face covering, but I haven't seen anything yet defining face covering or specifyinghow it is supposed to be used/worn. Utterly pointless and having a counter effect from what I've seen so far - people touching their face more due to the masks, people brushing right up against others en masse (you had the odd one before but few & far between) etc.