The role of safety glass is to protect the resident from the resulting fragments of glass and applies to glazing that reduces the risk of an accident by impact or fracture. The two most common types of safety glass are toughened glass and laminated glass.

What is Safety & Security? Reducing the risk of accident or protecting against deliberate attack. The term “Safety” is applied to glazing used to reduce the risk of accident by impact, fracture, shattering, or in a fire.

From banks and shopping centres to offices and schools, modern safety and security glass allows specifiers and installers to create aesthetically pleasing buildings, while protecting the people inside. Although safety and security glass are closely linked, there is a key distinction between the two.

Guarding and protection: how to specify glass barriers. Featured Article. 10 Dec 2019. Designing glass for use in barriers can appear complex at first, with a number of safety and technical measures to take into consideration.

Safety & Security Protection from accidents. Where glass is used overhead, at low level or in and around doors, windows and screens, the relevant standards must be met to protect against accidental human impact, such as children running into a patio door. There are three types of common safety glass:

For double-glazing units, specify an outer pane of toughened glass for safety and strength, with an inner pane of laminated glass for safety and security. Safety glass is designed to reduce the risk of accident by impact, whereas security glass is for withstanding intentional attacks.

Pilkington Insulight™ Protect units use safety glass, security glass, bullet-resistant glass, toughened glass or fire-resistant glass. This range offers not only increased safety and comfort, but can also assure suitable levels of natural light, increased heat insulation and solar control as well.

Safety / Security. Pilkington Optilam ... for providing safety zones or passageways for escape. The performance of fire resistant glass is expressed in periods of time for different qualities. The most common is 'integrity', which is how long the glass will keep the flames and hot gases back. Regulations demand that the minimum time is 30 minutes.

Fire Protection Glass. Pilkington's Fire-resistant Glass range ensures safer as well as space giving, brighter and sustainable fire safety design.

Pilkington Optilam™ is ideal for providing both impact resistance and security since it may break on impact but the glass is held in place thus preventing injury or intrusion. Pilkington Optilam™ is produced by combining two or more sheets of glass with one or more plastic interlayers.