Are Do-It-Yourself companies setting a good example? A systematic study of ocular protection on the Internet

摘要

Do-It-Yourself (DIY) activities account for 30000 eye injuries annually in the United Kingdom. Despite this, the Royal Society of Prevention of Accidents found that 89% of Britons do not wear safety glasses or goggles when performing DIY activities associated with ocular morbidity such as hammering, drilling, and sawing. Desai et al conducted a 12-month retrospective study of all ocular injuries in Scotland and found that the single most common place for blinding traumatic injuries to occur was in the home (52%).