This document provides training on eye protection safety. It discusses common causes of eye injuries like flying particles and chemicals. It notes that most injuries occur among craft workers and equipment operators. The document recommends always wearing appropriate eye protection that is properly fitted and maintained. It also suggests better training and education to prevent injuries. Specific guidance is given for preventing eyestrain from computers and first aid for various eye emergencies like chemicals, blows, and punctures.

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3. What causes eye injuries at work?

4. Where do injuries happen most often?

7. Over a third of injured workers are equipment operators, such as assemblers, sanders, and grinding machine operators.

9. Eye and Face Protection Selection Chart

11. Safety frames

12. Tempered glass or plastic lenses

13. Temples and side shields

14. They provide eye protection from moderate impact and particles encountered in job tasks such as:

15. carpentry

16. woodworking

17. grinding,

18. scaling, etc.

20. clear or tinted lenses

21. perforated, port vented, or non-vented frames.

22. Single lens goggles provide similar protection to spectacles and may be worn in combination with spectacles or corrective lenses to insure protection along with proper vision.

23. Welders goggles provide protection from sparking, scaling, or splashing metals and harmful light rays. Lenses are impact resistant and are available in graduated shades of filtration.

25. Face shields are available in various sizes, tensile strength, impact/heat resistance and light ray filtering capacity.

28. Use a document holder placed next to your computer screen. It should be close enough so you don’t have to swing your head back and forth or constantly change your eye focus.

29. Change your lighting to lower glare and harsh reflections. Glare filters over your computer screen can also help.

30. Get a chair you can adjust.

32. Wear eye protection for all hazardous activities.

33. Stock a first aid kit with a rigid eye shield and commercial eyewash before an eye injury happens.

34. DO NOT assume that any eye injury is harmless. When in doubt, see a doctor immediately.

36. DO NOT use an eyecup.

37. If a contact lens is in the eye, begin flushing over the lens immediately. This may wash away the lens.

38. DO NOT bandage the eye.

40. DO NOT rub the eye

41. Try to let tears wash the speck out or use an eyewash.

42. Try lifting the upper eyelid outward and down over the lower lid.

43. If the speck does not wash out, keep the eye closed, bandage it lightly, and see a doctor.

44. Blows to the Eye

45. Apply a cold compress without putting pressure on the eye. Crushed ice in a plastic bag can be taped to the forehead to rest gently on the injured eye.

46. In cases of pain, reduced vision, or discoloration (black eye), seek emergency medical care. Any of these symptoms could mean internal eye damage.

47. Cuts and Punctures of the Eye or Eyelid

48. DO NOT wash out the eye with water or any other liquid.

49. DO NOT try to remove an object that is stuck in the eye.

50. Cover the eye with a rigid shield without applying pressure. The bottom half of a paper cup can be used.

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