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Out of Sight, Out of Work – Vision Protection on the Job
Posted by Katherine Burlock on
How many times have you pushed safety glasses up on your head and forgot to put them back down when you went back to working? Over 700 Canadian workers sustain eye injuries on the job every day according to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), and the vast majority of these injuries are entirely preventable. Eye injuries can lead to vision loss, which negatively affects the quality of daily life, and causes absences from the workplace. The most common causes of eye injury in the Canadian workplace include the following: flying objects such as metal, glass, stone, or...
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