Over a million people each year experience an eye injury and a vast majority of them could have been prevented by taking just a few precautions. Your peepers need protecting and proper eye care can see you through many stages of life. If you engage in an activity that could be potentially hazardous, wear the proper protective eye wear that has been approved by the American National Standards Institute or ANSI.

Protecting your Eyes

Eye care should be your primary concern when you engage in an activity where chemicals, projectiles and possible flying objects could injure your eyes. There are dangers everywhere and thinking ahead will not only save you time and money in the doctor’s office but possibly your eyesight as well.

Around the Home

If you clean around the house and use spray cleaners for glass, furniture or even the bathtub, be sure to read the instructions so that you use the product properly. Most people neglect to do this and as a result inhale too many fumes and can even get some of the airborne mist from the cleaners into the eyes. The chemicals in these cleaners can be rather noxious and are capable of burning or corroding the delicate tissues of your eyes, causing blindness. As you can see, eye care is essential in this situation.

Gardening and lawn care also requires diligence and necessary precautions to protect your eyesight. Wearing protective goggles should be a part of your overall eye care in this situation as it can protect you from grass when mowing and flying rocks, twigs and other debris when weed eating or edging the lawn.

Sports

Many swimmers practice good eye care by donning swimming goggles to protect their eyes from the burning chlorinated water in the pool. Racquetball players wear sports goggles or protective glass as part of their eye care regime as the racquetball could fly toward their face at any time. Hunters, target shooters, hockey, basketball and more can all benefit from protective eyewear.

The Workplace

Physical activities in the workplace could also require proper eye care as well. If you work in pest control, landscaping, woodworking, mechanic or even crop dusting, the proper protective eyewear is essential. Chemicals from a car battery could splash a mechanic and pesticides could accidentally get into a pest control or crop duster person’s eyes. Wood shavings could float around from a saw or sander and embed themselves in a woodworker’s eyes and cause lacerations or an infection. Eye care practices in the form of safety glasses or goggles can definitely protect those peepers from harm.

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Tip! When you know all of the risks that are associated with corrective laser eye surgery, you will be able to decide if this is something that you will benefit from. You may dislike your contacts or eye glasses so much that these are all risks that you are willing to take to improve your vision.

The most common form of eye protection is safety glasses. I have always hated wearing safety glasses myself. I notice that people who have well fitted prescription safety glasses tend to wear theirs without compliant. I think that is because they can see better with their glasses on than with them off. I am the opposite however. I can see better without my safety glasses so I hate wearing them.

So how do you protect the eyes of people like me who are going to avoid wearing their safety glasses if they can get away with it?

First you can work to eliminate the hazards. Why do you allow things that could potentially damage someone’s eye to be flying around in the first place. Look to engineering solutions to change your process so that potential hazards are eliminated.

Also look at your work procedures. Is there another way of doing this tasks that eliminates the exposure to potential eye injury?

If the source of the danger cannot be eliminated, look into ways to effectively guard the exposure. There are many ways to create see through guards and covers that would protect the employees for flying particles. The usual problem with these is that they get obscured with dirt and scratches and the vision through the guard is reduced until it becomes ineffective.

Using modern materials and self cleaning systems, vision through the guards can be maintained. You just have to use some creativity. A good strong preventive maintenance program helps too.

Tip! For many active or sports minded people LASIK offers them an opportunity to continue to compete in athletic activities without the physical constraints of having to wear contact lenses or eye glasses. Even swimming takes on a whole new level of pleasure as you no longer need any eyewear to allow you to see clearly after you have undergone LASIK surgery.

If chemical exposure is a problem look into using alternate chemical that are not eye irritants. Safety glasses actually provide very little protection to chemical splashes. If you are trying to protect employees from chemical hazards, fitted goggles or face shields are much more effective.

Of course eye wash stations cannot be overlooked in any situation where eye irritants are in the workplace. Eyewash station must be easily accessible and never allowed to be blocked. Be sure you can access the eye wash station with your eyes closed as a potential user will likely not be able to see.

Keep your eye wash station clean and flush them regularly. Water pipes that feed them may rust or corrode due to infrequent water flow, so make sure that the water source is clean and possibly filtered is debris in the water is a problem. Inspect and flush all your eye wash stations at least monthly.

Another was to help people like me who hate to wear safety glasses is to provide plenty of eye glass cleaning stations equipped with effective eye glass cleaning supplies. I have found I can tolerate clean glasses much better that smudged ones.

Tip! The main benefit of having corrective laser eye surgery is that you will not need to wear eye glasses or contact lenses any longer. Just imagining how free you would be of your particular medical device, is enough to get anyone excited about the possibility of laser eye surgery.

Eyesight is a precious resource and needs to be preserved with great care. Ensure that you have done all that you can do to help your employees see clearly.

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Tip! When you know all of the risks that are associated with corrective laser eye surgery, you will be able to decide if this is something that you will benefit from. You may dislike your contacts or eye glasses so much that these are all risks that you are willing to take to improve your vision.

Reading glasses come in two main styles: full frames, and half-eyes, the smaller
Franklin glasses that sit lower down on the nose. Many people feel they look better
in contact lenses rather than eyeglasses. Reading glasses are suitable for people
who spend a great deal of time concentrating on material close-up. Contacts lenses
are a safe and effective alternative to eyeglasses when used with care and proper
supervision.

The need for reading glasses has long been associated with being old. Have you
found yourself having to push that magazine out at arm’s length to see the fine
print? You’ve officially reached middle age. However contact lenses, when compared
with eyeglasses, require a longer initial examination, more follow-up visits to
maintain eye health, and more time for lens care.

Reading glasses can be custom-made for each individual through an optical
dispenser, or they can be purchased “ready-made” at the pharmacy or department
store. Contact lenses move with your eye, allow a natural field of view, have no
frames to obstruct your vision, and greatly reduce distortions. They do not fog up,
like eyeglasses, nor does mud or rain splatter them.

Tip! The main benefit of having corrective laser eye surgery is that you will not need to wear eye glasses or contact lenses any longer. Just imagining how free you would be of your particular medical device, is enough to get anyone excited about the possibility of laser eye surgery.

Reading glasses are safe in that they cannot damage the eyes physically, whether or
not they are the optimal strength, or whether they are used correctly or incorrectly.
Contact lenses, compared to eyeglasses, generally offer better sight.

Reading glasses, containing low power plus sphere lenses, and are widely available
for non-prescription, over-the-counter purchase. Most eye-care professionals
recommend replacing your contact lenses case every 3 months for optimum eye
health.

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