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Interesting. I wonder if looking too closely into a fire carries the same risk.
by causality0 5y ago
Interesting. I wonder if looking too closely into a fire carries the same risk.
- somebodynew 5y agoInfrared eye protection is important for glassblowers looking at molten glass [1]. Back of the envelope math suggests that an occupation that required staring at an intense fire for long periods of time would violate the same workplace safety thresholds, but I have not been able to locate any studies that specifically investigated looking at fire. There are a surprising number of different jobs that involve staring at incandescence from molten glass or metal, but I think the most interesting is an operator of a disappearing-filament pyrometer [2]. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0275540896000877 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02755... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing-filament_pyrometer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing-filament_pyromete...