Safety Glasses - The What, Where Why and When of Eye Protection

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The Importance of Eye and Face Protection
While it's important to protect your eyes from the sun, it is just as important if not more to protect your eyes from hazards on the job. Eye safety is an important topic among construction and manufacturing workers. Anyone engaged in activity involving the use of saws, power tools, sanders or other equipment that may release airborne particles is at risk for eye injury.

Statistics provided by the U.S. Department of Labor suggest thousands of consumers and employees suffer from eye injuries every year, many resulting from work related injuries incurred when workers used inadequate eye or face protection. Such injuries may result in blindness and thousands of dollars in lost production time and medical expenses.

Eye injuries in the workplace typically result in up to 20% of temporary and permanent vision loss among workers. While workplace injuries are common, there are easy to use tools available for preventing eye injury. The most common hazards associated with eye injuries on the job include:

• Airborne particles or bits of metal, glass or wood
• Tools and power equipment that elicit sparks
• Flying objects
• Radiation or UV light
• Chemicals or other corrosive substances that may spray and damage vision

It is just important employees and employers understand the potential benefits wearing adequate eye protection have. Eye protection and safety glasses generally fall under the category of PPE or personal protective equipment, and generally serve to protect workers and consumers from hazards exposed to on the job.

Cost Effective Solutions to Eye Injuries
Fortunately there is a simple and cost effective solution to help minimize the risk you will injure your eyes on the job. Safety goggles and glasses provide ample coverage to help protect your eyes while still enabling you to see what you need to get the job done.

Safety glasses come with an assortment of unique features. Some for example include polycarbonate lenses or frames. Still others are fitted or incorporate a full shield for the face if the user is engaged in particularly hazardous work. Still others enable the user to wear their prescription lenses or incorporate prescription lenses into the safety lenses. These safety frames typically are far more durable than conventional prescription lenses.

 

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