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Eye Injuries Prevented by Safety Glasses

If you’re regularly engaging in activities that could cause harm to your eyes, it’s important to protect them, after all, your vision is an essential sense. Sometimes people simply decide not to wear safety glasses unless they’re doing something that poses an incredibly high risk, like working with a circular saw that could cause wood fragments to fly into the eye at close range. However, there are other activities that could put your eyes at risk, and it’s better to be safe than sorry!

There are a number of different eye-related accidents you can prevent with use of safety glasses. You may think some of the common causes of eye injury are funny...but you won’t be laughing when you get your Johnny Depp on looking like a pirate with an eye patch! 1 million Americans have experienced compromised vision due eye injuries that can be prevented.

1.     Workplace hazards – individuals that work in hands-on trades like construction should use safety glasses at all times. Even if you are not working directly with machinery, with fragments of material in the air, there’s still the potential for injury.

2.     Sports injuries – with sports like hockey or baseball when there are small objects flying through the air, there is the potential that they will make contact with the face.

3.     Recreational activities – paintball and fireworks have both been documented as the culprits behind eye-related injuries. Safety glasses can prevent problems!

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