Comfort and style drive eye protection compliance

摘要

An estimated 2,000 workplace eye injuries occur daily, but many may have been preventable. In fact, it is estimated that 3 out of every 5 workers injured either were not wearing eye protection at the time of the incident or were wearing the wrong kind of protection for the job. Why aren't all workers protecting their vision? According to the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, the most commonly reported issues with protective eyewear are lack of comfort, unappealing style, fogging and scratching. Safety professionals polled in a 2011 survey identified eye protection as the most challenging of all personal protective equipment categories in terms of compliance with wearing protocols.