Vision: A Key Piece in the Safety Puzzle-OH&S

Vision: A Key Piece in the Safety Puzzle

Employers sometimes lose focus on vision protection when handling high-fatality dangers such as falls. Fortunately vision protection might be having its big moment. BY SHANE FOREMAN- Occupational Health & Safety Magazine, SEP 06, 2023

Safety in the industrial workplace has not been on the firmest footing in recent years. Factors such as COVID workplace restrictions, economically-induced consolidation of workforces, and a feeling that companies need to “catch up” for lost time have made the workplace environment fraught with accidents, some of them even fatal.

Jack Dennerlin, adjunct professor of ergonomics and safety at Harvard’s Department of Environmental Health and co-director of Work Health and Well-being: Achieving Worker Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health had this to say, “COVID-19 has stressed the system. All the flaws that have been in place are totally exposed and have come to the forefront of our daily conversations.” No, the pandemic hasn’t caused every safety ailment, but it did have a lasting ripple effect.

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