The sun can be harmful to much more than your skin. The same ultraviolet radiation can damage your eyes. Eye sun damage builds over your lifetime and can ultimately affect your vision. There are several ways to curtail the damage while still enjoying the outdoors. Because sun damage is cumulative, adopting these preventative practices can…
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Protect Your Vision this Summer with Fireworks Safety
Every Independence Day, millions of Americans gather together to celebrate liberty and witness the spectacle of a fireworks display. It’s great fun to see those colorful patterns of light in the sky. However, all too often, fireworks cause injuries that prevent people from enjoying the experience ever again. A great number of the accidents…
Don’t Leave Your Eye Protection In The Dugout
Baseball is a favorite springtime sport for many children and adults. When that sunshine hits the grass and a crisp spring breeze is in the air, baseball enthusiasts gather their bats, helmets, and gloves and hit the field. Unfortunately, too many people forget to pack one of the most important pieces of safety gear –…
Five Tips for Protecting Your Eyes on The Job
Safety in the workplace involves much more than avoiding slips, falls, and heavy lifting. It also includes taking precautions to protect your eyes. It is important that you wear appropriate eye protection to stay on the job and out of the emergency room. Each day, about 2,000 workers in the United States sustain a job-related…
Whether You’re Lighting Fireworks or Just Watching – Keep Your Families Eye’s Safe This Independence Day
Enjoying the three F’s… Family, frankfurters, and fireworks – all the highlight of Independence Day, but one of them can do seriously more harm. In the most recent fireworks injury report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 11,400 fireworks related injuries occurred this past year where victims needed emergency room treatment, and 1 in…
Keep Your Eyes Safe While Working
In 2013 the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported over 22,000 eye injuries in the workplace resulting in lost work. This statistic doesn’t even take into account the eye injuries not resulting in lost work, or continuous eye strain that may be a result of unhealthy habits in the workplace. That’s why Prevent Blindness America has…
December is Safe Toys and Gifts Month
Everyone here at Corrective Eye would like to remind everybody that December is Safe Toys and Gifts Month. It is very important to keep your children’s safety in mind when you are shopping this Holiday season. More often than you know it accidents that involve children and toys occur and can result in injury to…
Preventing Eye Injuries at Home, in the Game and on the Job
October is Eye Injury Prevention Month – a time to increase awareness about preventing eye injuries. The eye doctors at Corrective Eye Center think it’s important you know how many people are impacted by pain and vision loss each year as a result of eye injuries while we outline a few simple steps to make…
Proper Home Eye Protection in the Yard and Garage Can Help Prevent Eye Injuries
This Press Release Provided By: Prevent Blindness Sarah Hecker (312)363-6035 shecker@preventblindness.org Accidents with Power Tools Cause More Eye Injuries than Any Other Product CHICAGO (Sept. 24, 2014) – In 2013, more than 94,000 adults and children were treated in hospital emergency rooms in the United States for eye injuries from products. Many of these products…