I don't wear safty glasses but I wear regular glasses with the shatterproof lens. I already lost one eye so I wouldn't shoot or do almost anything without my glasses on. Had I been wearing safty glasses when I lost my right eye, I would still have it. The company I worked for at the time furnished them but I was young and dumb and indestructable back then so I course I didn't wear them. The head flew off a nail and the eye was history.. Two surgeries did no good. Had it happened now a days they may have been able to fix it but that was back in 1975.