Someone glances over and focuses on a welder's flash, for example. It's often the unexpected that causes injuries. Turriff's organization encourages workers to wear eye protection near any possible hazard, not just when they're required to. But for safety managers who have a tough enough time getting workers to don proper PPE for hazardous jobs, that's sure to sound unrealistic. This article might help your efforts to motivate employees.
Statistics show how pervasive eye and hand injuries are.
And we found anecdotes to bring the numbers to life. A maintenance worker who wore safety glasses with side shields whenever he worked in hazardous job areas inadvertently kept his glasses on as he left work one day. The impact left a thick scratch on the glasses, and could have severely injured his eye. Another serious eye injury was avoided a few months ago when a safety director wore his safety eyewear into the cafeteria to get a pot of coffee for a meeting. His eyes were saved when the glass inside his thermos shattered in his face.