Industrial goggles could soon join inexpensive lingerie, white high heels and breast implants on the California film sets where the billion-dollar adult industry churns out blockbusters with titles such as Everyone I Did Last Summer, The Boobyguard and Good Will Humping.

Legislation, which is heading to California's capital Sacramento, hopes to improve workplace safety drastically in the porn industry by more clearly enforcing existing legislation governing the use of condoms and introducing new rules governing exposure to OPIMs - that is, Other Potentially Infectious Materials.

Adult film actress Ela Darling in her Los Angeles apartment, which was often used as a filming location, feared in 2013 that her career was under threat from California legislation requiring actors to wear condoms and other protective gear on set. Credit:Bloomberg

That's where the goggles come in, but more on them in a moment.

The proposed California Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act would cover any production of pornographic material in the state of California - that is, "all workplaces in which employees have occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens and/or sexually transmitted pathogens due to one or more employees engaging in sexual activity with another individual".