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March is Eye Wellness Month

As part of your regular health routine, be sure to include eye health and wellness, which includes booking your annual comprehensive eye exam. As we celebrate Workplace Eye Wellness Month in March, it’s the perfect time to review your eye health plan and ensure you have a healthy and safe… Read More

Laser Eye Safety

Lasers beams and laser devices are in use in thousands of workplaces every day in Canada. Are you working with lasers? Lasers are everyday tools The term “laser” conjures up images of science fiction weapons used to vaporize the enemy or high-tech applications used to manufacture silicon chips for computers. Read More

What you need to know about Transition Safety Eyewear

Technology advances seem to be everywhere these days, and the safety eyewear arena isn’t any different. Whether it is improved comfort or style, a broad range of shades and colours, and super light-weight designs, improvements in safety eyewear are being made. One of the newest innovations is transition safety eyewear… Read More

Goggles vs. Glasses: What’s the Safety Performance Difference

There are a range of biases and perceptions about the performance of safety eyewear. Some say: If safety glasses are good protection then safety goggles must be better. While others think that safety goggles only protect from splashes and are ineffective at protecting from projectiles. The problem with these perceptions… Read More

Sporting Eye Safety

Safety eyewear is used every day in the workplace, but don’t let your guard down once you’ve left the workplace and have stepped into leisure activities. It’s just as important to keep your eyes safe when participating in sports and other recreational activities. The eyes are at risk from projectiles,… Read More

Eye Injury Prevention Programming

Protecting your eyes from injury is one of the most basic things you can do to keep your vision healthy throughout your life. At work this may be most easily achieved for everyone if an effective eye injury prevention program is put in place. The basics of eye injury programming… Read More

Summertime Eye Safety

When summer finally arrives in Alberta, we’re ready to hit the beach and have some fun. Fact is, we take full advantage of a variety of outdoor activities, and with the increased daylight hours we tend to see a lot of sun – literally. And, that means an increase in… Read More

Starting a DIY project at home this summer? We’ve got some eye safety tips.

When most of us think eye safety, it’s not a big leap to envision the workplace, but what about all of those projects we take on at home? Regardless of whether you are at home or on the job, eye injuries can cause permanent vision loss. Stats¹ say half of… Read More

Ultraviolet and Infrared Light – It’s what you can’t see that’s dangerous

For most of us, flipping a wall switch is pretty much all we know about light. But, what we don’t know can hurt us – especially our eyes. Both ultraviolet (UV) radiation and infrared (IR) radiation are potentially dangerous and exposure is common in many workplaces, so understanding what makes… Read More

Why does my safety eyewear hurt to wear?

More than 700 Canadian workers per day sustain eye injuries1 on the job resulting in lost time and/or temporary or permanent vision loss. Since a majority of these injuries are preventable, let’s look at one of the reasons workers are not wearing safety eyewear. Very simply, it can hurt to… Read More

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