Safety as a concept covers a wide area and comprises several aspects:
Where the risk of injury alone is to be avoided, the main factor to bear in mind is the breakage pattern of the glass. Care should be taken to avoid the glass breaking into pieces which could cause injury. If protection against defenestration is also a concern, it is important that the glass is not obliterated completely if broken.
Only a small number of glass products meet the breakage, defenestration and resistance criteria detailed above.
There are two main families of safety products available from Metalco: