Eye Protection Safety Training
There may be no more valuable organ than our eyes.
With their remarkable ability to translate light energy into impulses transmitted to the brain, which in turn becomes sight, our eyes provide a “window on the world.”
In most cases, we need to see in order to work. As a result, our eyes are one of the most important tools we have. Unfortunately, our eyes are also the organ most vulnerable to occupational injuries. Nearly 100,000 eye injuries occur on the job each year, many resulting in partial or complete loss of sight and, in some cases, total disability. The cost in medical payments, workers’ compensation and lost work days because of eye injuries is substantial. Yet it is a cost that can easily be avoided through eye protection.
Eye protection not only makes safety sense, but it makes financial sense, too. Whenever there’s a chance that employees could be exposed to hazards to the eye, eye protection and eye protection training are important ways to help them protect themselves on the job.
The Blueprints for Safety© Eye Protection Program presents a simple, step-by-step approach to help you easily develop a program that will provide employees with the training and information they need to work safely in areas that may present hazards to the eye.
An effective eye protection program will help you do these things:
- Identify eye hazards in the workplace
- Create and implement eye protection practices
- Train employees to protect their eyes
By understanding eye hazards and training all employees in eye protection, you can reduce the risk of eyesight loss and increase the safety of the workplace.
