Riot and Crowd Control Protection against Hand-held Lasers

High-powered hand-held lasers are a significant hazard to law-enforcement in crowd control and riot situations, inducing flash blindness and potentially causing eye injury in close proximity attacks. The sudden loss of vision from a laser illumination is disorienting and debilitating, and the fear of injury is real, yet typical safety glasses provide no protection from these threats. 

NoIR GlareShields™ eliminate the disabling effects of a laser attack and reduce the risk of eye injury without compromising mission performance. The ARG and CC1 filters protect against Green and Blue laser threats (FAA data on laser strikes against aircraft report 87.2% green, 8.2% blue) and the CC2 filter protects against Blue, Green and Red lasers. GlareShields™ are optimized for nightime, offer Z87.1 impact and 100% UV protection, and allow visibility of the beam (for point source location). 

Riot and Crowd Control Protection against Hand-held Lasers

NoIR GlareShields™ laser pointer filters provide necessary and sufficient protection from the disabling effects of intentional or incidental laser pointer hits without compromising the wearer’s ability to perform on the job. All NoIR GlareShields™ provide full daylight UV and glare protection along with laser safety. But since the flash-blindness effect of a laser pointer illumination is much more pronounced at night when the lasers are brighter and the eye is dark acclimated, NoIR offers a line of GlareShields™ designed for use in low light/nighttime conditions. GlareShields™ optimize protection from the beam with Optical Densities (ODs) between 1-3 (absorbing 90-99.9% of the beam energy), while in some cases still allowing visibility of the beam spot without compromising visual acuity or display panel color recognition (for point source location and perpetrator apprehension), and for close exposure crowd control ground exposures, higher to full protection against the laser illumination.

ARG

ARG - Orange

• 99.99999% Blue Beam reduction
• 99.99999% Green Beam reduction
• 48% Photopic (daylight) Transmittance
• 9% Scotopic (nighttime) Transmittance
• 48% visible light transmittance for low light and nighttime conditions
• Full protection against Blue/Green lasers under and over 5 Watts
• Wearer will not see the beam or experience any disabling glare or flash blindness
• Meets Z87.1 Impact Standard
• Meets ANSI and CE laser standards

CC1

CC1 - Orange

• 99.9% Blue Beam reduction (OD3+)
• 99.9% Green Beam reduction (OD3+)
• 49% Photopic (daylight) Transmittance
• 19% Scotopic (nighttime) Transmittance
• Protection against ~ 5W Blue and Green lasers
• Wearer will see some beam energy for point source location, without significant disabling glare or flash blindness
• Meets Z87.1 Impact Standard
• Meets ANSI and CE laser standards
  
   

CC2

CC2 - Amber

• 99.9% Blue Beam reduction (OD3+)
• 99.9% Green Beam reduction (OD3+)
• 90% Red Beam reduction (OD1+)
• 23% Photopic (daylight) Transmittance
• 15% Scotopic (nighttime) Transmittance
• Protection against ~ 5W Blue and Green lasers and ~50mW Red lasers.
• Wearer will see some beam energy for point source location, without significant disabling glare or flash blindness
• Meets Z87.1 Impact Standard
• Meets ANSI and CE laser standards