Nearly one million Americans have lost some degree of their sight due to an eye injury. More than 700,000 Americans injure their eyes at work each year. Luckily, 90% of all workplace eye injuries can be avoided by using proper safety eyewear.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has created a basic safety checklist that helps employers reduce the risk of eye injuries in the workplace:
“You’ll shoot your eye out kid,” Santa replies in the 1980s movie classic A Christmas Story, when Ralphie asks for a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. That phrase has become synonymous with eye safety in a joking manner.In reality, personal protection equipment (PPE) isn’t laughable when thousands of people are blinded, injured, or killed each year from accidents that could have been prevented or minimized if appropriate PPE had been used.
New-for-2014 model provides advanced vision protection with multiple lens choices
April 2, 2014
The new-for-2014 Romer 3 has joined the popular Changeable Series of performance protective eyewear from leading manufacturer Wiley X®, Inc. This new style is an ideal choice for military and law enforcement, hunters, shooting sports enthusiasts and others who require state-of-the-art eye protection, clear vision and the ability to select from a range of lens options to best suit environmental conditions.
The Federal Occupational Health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designates July as Eye Injury Prevention Month, meaning now is the ideal time to reinforce for employees that eye protection is a lifestyle rather than a workplace dictate.
