Eye lines: injuries and treatment
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Eyes are vunerable to injury at work and during leisure hours especially when undertaking sports, such as squash. Emergency eye injuries include, puncturing, chemical burns, sudden painless loss of vision, painful congestion, pain and reduced vision and blunt injuries. Under the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 the employer is obliged to pay for eye tests and provide corrective appliances. Under the Protection of Eyes Regulations employers should carry out risk assessments on possible eye injury and provide eye protection equipment.
Publication Name: Occupational Safety & Health
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0143-5353
Year: 1993
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Safety eyewear & the older worker
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Workers who suffer from presbyopia, or loss of visual acuity at short distances, are at risk of eye-related injury. In many cases, they remove protective eyewear in order to use unapproved drugstore readers, which do not protect their eyes properly. The best solution may be plastic magnifying lenses that can convert plano protective eyewear into magnification-reading bifocals.
Publication Name: Occupational Safety & Health
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0143-5353
Year: 2001
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Why do a visual job analysis?
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The reasons for undertaking a vision-related job analysis are discussed. The first stage in hazard identification is to obtain and organize data about a workplace, followed by producing an estimate of the potential for eye and face injury.
Publication Name: Occupational Safety & Health
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0143-5353
Year: 2001
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