BS EN ISO 4007:2018

What is ISO 4007 - Vocabulary for eye and face protection equipment about? 

ISO 4007 is an international standard that covers vocabulary for personal protective equipment, especially eye and face protection that enables you to promote common language across all stakeholders involved in eye and face protection equipment according to international norms. 

ISO 4007 defines and explains the principal terms used in the field of personal eye and face protection. 

Who is ISO 4007 - Vocabulary for eye and face protection equipment for? 

ISO 4007 on Vocabulary for eye and face protection equipment applies to: 

• Manufacturers of eye and face protection equipment 
• Dealers and importers of eye and face protection equipment 
• Testing labs for eye and face protection equipment 

Why should you use ISO 4007 - Vocabulary for eye and face protection equipment? 

Personal protective equipment is used in safety applications which involves humans working with high power machines. This equipment’s have the responsibility of keeping the user safe in case of any hazard or mechanical malfunction. Face and eye protection includes products like face shields, safety goggles, welding mask, fluid resistant shields and more. 

ISO 4007 provides you guidance on terms and definitions related to risks and hazards, optical radiation, non-ionizing radiation, radiometry and photometry, optical materials and properties, wearer characteristics, filters, absorption, transmission and reflection which allows you to standardize the vocabulary related to eye and face protection. 

Guidance in ISO 4007 enables you to standardize common technical terms used in the personal protective equipment field that is compiled for proper understanding to accurately understand relevant text, correspondences and communication. 

What’s changed since the last update? 

BS EN ISO 4007:2018 supersedes BS EN ISO 4007:2012, which is now withdrawn. 

Changes in BS EN ISO 4007:2018 include - 

• The word “ocular” has been changed to “lens” to describe the transparent material through which the wearer looked 
• Some terms have been moved and renumbered to more suitable positions, e.g. some of the terms that were in the “properties of materials” subclause are now in the “transmittance” subclause 
• 52 new terms have been added, over 100 terms or definitions have been modified and sources have been updated. Greater information about the source of definitions is given where these have been copied from other standards 
• The following terms have been deleted: giant-pulsed laser, haze, He-Ne laser, optical class, protective ocular, radiation power, untinted ocular, very-high-pressure (intensity) mercury vapour lamp 
• Terms relating to “mesh protectors” and “additional lenses” have been added for use in the appropriate standards