While ordinary glass usually shatters into very sharp shards some types of safety glass breaks into small blunt.
Safety glass windows.
Safety glass breaks in a way that prevents human injuries and property damage.
Laminated safety glass is crafted by adhering two pieces of annealed glass together by a vinyl layer eva.
It also includes glass that is manufactured for strength or fire resistance.
Also glass on a perpendicular wall to a door and opposite the swing must be safety tempered as illustrated below.
Safety glass is glass that is specifically designed to be less likely to break and less prone to inflicting injury when it breaks.
A federal law mandates safety glass for areas that have the possibility of impact by a person such as sliding glass doors and low windows in walking areas.
None of this should be interpreted to exclude using safety tempered glass for in a location that you decide warrants it.
The vinyl interlayer holds the glass together if the glass is broken or impaled.
Two types of safety glass are heat strengthened and tempered.
Glass that is not laminated shows only two reflections from the two surfaces of the glass.
Tempered glass also known as tempered safety glass is defined as glass that is heat treated to be stronger and more durable than standard annealed glass up to four times stronger.