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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
