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The Challenge: Eye Injuries are Prevalent in the Workplace
Approximately 2,000 U.S. workers daily sustain a work-related eye injury requiring medical treatment.1 This is a problem for employers and workers because about 1 in 10 injuries require one or more missed workdays to recover.2
Eye Injuries occur for two main reasons:
- Not wearing eye protection: Nearly three out of every five workers injured were not wearing eye protection at the time of the accident.3
- Wearing the wrong eye protection for the job: 40% of the injured workers wore some form of eye protection when the accident occurred. However, these workers were most likely wearing protective eyeglasses offering inadequate eye protection.3
The Opportunity: Most Eye Injuries are Preventable
Experts believe that the correct eye protection could lessen the severity of or even prevent 90% of eye injuries. Compliance and education play a significant role in preventing these injuries.
- Compliance: Workers always need to wear eye protection and to be effective, the eyewear must be appropriate for the hazard encountered and properly fitted.3
- Education: Although most employers furnished eye protection at no cost to employees, about 40% of the workers did not know where and what kind of eyewear should be used.3
Announcing Eyewear Solutions: Enhance your eye safety program today!
Eyewear Solutions is more than just safety eyewear. We will partner with you in the success of your safety program. A comprehensive program focused on helping you keep workers protected and comfortable with a wide variety of prescription and non-prescription safety eyewear professionally fitted for your employees.
1 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
2 http://www.preventblindness.org © 2011 Prevent Blindness America.
3 Bureau of Labor Statistics. 4 U.S. Eye Injury Registry Summary Report, 1998-2002.
