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If your transparent face shield should become scratched or damaged in use, we can send you a replacement piece to fit inside your headband. 

Summertime is Face Shield Time Along with all the best things of summer, like longer days, sunny skies, seasonal fruit, comes much warmer weather. Typically, higher temperatures are celebrated by many, but with this year’s challenges and necessary precautions of wearing a mask, some of us are feeling a little too hot. Temperatures getting higher and the air becoming more humid, can cause breathing difficulties for a number of people at the best of times. But when you have to wear a mask, you may feel even hotter. Many people may even be tempted to disregard the PPE all together. We want everyone to stay safe, and wearing a face shield could be a good alternative.  Many people find that face...

One of the major benefits of using a face shield is that it can be used over and over again. A typical scene in the media has included photos of discarded masks littering parking lots and streets. Face shields combat this issue.

There is a debate going on about the benefits and shortcomings of both masks and face shields in protecting against pathogens. Here are a few excerpts from articles we have found from Cleveland Clinic, the National Post and CTV News.   Cleveland Clinic “Because they extend down from the forehead, shields protect the eyes as well as the nose and mouth,” says pediatric infectious disease specialist Frank Esper, MD. The coverage that face shields offer is ideal since the new coronavirus can enter the body through those points. National Post Layered cloth masks can filter some of the tiny, virus-sized particles that fly out when people cough, sneeze, talk or breathe. But face shields, the Iowa team said, may be...

Read about how Safe Shields, a face shield manufacturing company, began.