A sizable obstacle to the success of wearable devices in supporting good health, independent living, and workplace safety is compliance: is the user wearing the device and wearing it as it was designed? According to the United States Department of Labor, thousands of people are blinded each year from work-related eye injuries; this costs the industry more than $300 million in lost production time, medical expenses, and worker compensation (“Safety and Health Topics | Eye and Face Protection,” n.d.). This loss easily could be prevented by the usage of protective eyewear; thus is it imperative to know whether workers are complying with safety standards. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that all protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head and extremities be provided (“General requirements. - 1910.132,” n.d.). Therefore, any manual laborer worker is required comply with safety standards, including wearing protective eyewear. This research investigated inexpensive sensors to monitor compliance with regard to safety goggles and workplace safety. To ensure high fidelity and accurate data, it is paramount to understand user behavior in the wearing and use of these devices. Specifically, detailed knowledge regarding the subject’s usage of protective eyewear, including the orientation and location on the head directly to inform the quality of compliance to safety standards. However, the addition of compliance monitoring functionality is limited by size, power consumption, cost, and form factor constraints inherent to the wearable device of interest. These limitations restrict the types of sensors that can be used to achieve compliance monitoring. After literature review and feasibility study of compliance monitoring techniques and existing biomedical wearables, including assessing electrostatic field sensing, magnetic sensing, and various approaches to eye tracking, we have decided to pursue magnetic sensors as the most viable option for compliance sensing. We are optimistic that magnetic sensing may offer a low cost and low energy solution for the detection of direction and orientation of protective eyewear. Therefore, with magnetic sensing we will determine if the protective eyewear is being worn on the bridge of the nose, on top of the head, or completely off of the body to determine compliance with safety standards. A preliminary design has been modeled and simulated to be evaluated for feasibility.