Safety Tidbits

Safety Tidbits–

Click here for this week’s Safety Tidbits which includes information on eye injury prevention.

October is Eye Injury Prevention Month – It can happen in the blink of an eye. You may have no time to react. That’s why it’s so important to protect your eyes from harm.

According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, an estimated 90% of eye injuries are preventable with the use of proper safety eyewear. If the eye is injured, seek emergency medical help immediately.

Dangers at Home – When we think of eye protection, we tend to think of the workplace. We often forget that even at home, we might find ourselves dealing with similar threats to our eyes. Dangerous chemicals that could burn or splash the eyes aren’t restricted to chemical laboratories. They’re also in our garages and under our kitchen sinks. Debris and other air-borne irritants are present at home, too, whether one is doing a home construction project or working in the yard. The debris from a lawnmower or “weed-wacker,” for example, can be moving at high speeds and provide no time to react. Some sports also put the eyes at risk of injury from foreign objects moving at high speeds.

Effective Eyewear – The best ways to prevent injury to the eye is to always wear the appropriate eye protection. The BLS reports that approximately 60% of workers injured were either not wearing eye protection at the time of the accident or wearing the wrong kind of eye protection for the job.
Vision is a gift. Make the extra effort to protect it.

A Case of Mistaken Identity

An eye witness account from New York City, on a cold day in December, some years ago:

A little boy, about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.

A lady approached the young boy and said, ‘My, but you’re in such deep thought staring in that window!’

‘I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes’, was the boy’s reply.

The lady took him by the hand, went into the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with the towel. By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy’s feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes.

She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, ‘No doubt, you will be more comfortable now’
As she turned to go, the astonished kid caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face, with tears in his eyes, asked her… ‘Are you God’s wife?’

Who do people mistake you for?

Safety Wayne

Think Positive

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can. -John Wesley

Thanks, WK