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OSHA Eye Protection Standard

Many workers are unaware how vulnerable their precious eyes are in today's workplace. Your key to reducing eye injury on-the-job starts with awareness and recognition of the dangers present in the work environment.

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Personal protective equipment (PPE) for the eyes and face is designed to prevent or lessen the severity of injuries to workers when engineering the administrative controls are not feasible or effective in reducing these exposures to acceptable levels.

What must employers do to comply with OSHA's Eye Safety Standard?

The following OSHA standards provide mandatory requirements and compliance assistance for employers when selecting proper eye and face protection:

• 1910.132 -General requirements
• 1910.133 -General Industry
• 1915.153 -Maritime
• 1926.102 -Construction

Source: www.osha.gov

OSHA requires that you provide eye and face protection whenever necessary to protect against chemical, environmental, and radiological hazards or mechanical irritants.

Employers should also conduct workplace hazard assessments and providing adequate training for all workers who require eye and face protection. Properly trained employees should be able to anticipate and avoid injury from job related hazards.

Training Requirements for Employers & Employees

The employer must ensure that each affected employee uses appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation.

Employers must provide training for each employee who is required to use PPE in the workplace. [1910.132(f)] covering:

• When PPE is necessary
• What PPE is necessary
• How to properly don, doff, adjust, and wear PPE
• Limitations of the PPE
• Proper care, maintenance, useful life, and disposal of the PPE

All training should be conducted by a knowledgeable designated person and presented in a manner that the employee can understand.

Each affected employee shall demonstrate an understanding of the training specified and the ability to use PPE properly, before being allowed to perform work requiring the use of PPE.

Employers who allow their employees to wear eye and face protection on a voluntary basis when not required by OSHA or the employer must implement limited provisions of a PPE program. For all other voluntary users, an additional written eye and face protection program that covers proper maintenance procedures must be implemented.

Retraining

When the employer has reason to believe that any affected employee who has already been trained does not have the understanding and skill required, the employer shall retrain that employee. Circumstances where retraining is required include, but are not limited to, situations where:

• Changes in the workplace render previous training obsolete
• Changes in the types of PPE to be used render previous training obsolete
• Inadequacies in an affected employee's knowledge or use of assigned PPE indicate that the employee has not retained the requisite understanding or skill

Written Certification

The employer shall verify that each affected employee has received and understood the required training through a written certification that contains the name of each employee trained, the date(s) of training, and the subject of the certification.

Handling Emergencies

If an eye injury occurs, quick action can prevent a permanent disability. For this reason:

• Emergency eyewashes should be placed in all hazardous areas
• First-aid instructions should be posted close to potential danger spots
• Employees must know where the closest eyewash station is and how to get there with restricted vision

Source: www.osha.gov you can find more specific PPE info by following the link.

OSHA eTools you can use:

Selecting PPE for the Workplace. Provides a hazard assessment to determine the risk of exposure to eye and face hazards, including those which may be encountered in an emergency, and offers controls.
Eye and Face Protection. OSHA eTool. Provides a comprehensive hazard assessment, information about selecting protective devices for the workplace, as well as OSHA requirements.
Personal Protective Equipment. OSHA Publication 3151-12R, (2003). Also available as a 629 KB PDF, 46 pages. Discusses the types of equipment most commonly used to protect the head, torso, arms, hands, and feet. Additional topics include requirements, hazard assessment, selection, and employee training.
Eye Protection in the Workplace. OSHA Fact Sheet 93-03, (1993). Provides information about eye protection in the workplace including causes and prevention of eye injuries.
Eye Safety. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Safety and Health Topic.
Eye Safety: Emergency Response & Disaster Recovery. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), (2001, September). Includes information about eye safety, types of eye and face protection, and first aid for eye injuries.
Contact Lens Use in a Chemical Environment. US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Publication No. 2005-139, (2005, June). Provides safety guidelines for contact lens wearers working in chemical environments.
Eye Washes & Deluge Showers. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Discusses the need to install and maintain an emergency eye wash unit wherever a chemical or physical hazard may pose a serious risk of injury to someone's eye.
Toolbox Talk: Eye Safety. Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health (eLCOSH). Also available as a 1 MB PDF, 17 pages. Discusses how and why eye injuries occur in the workplace and what to do to prevent them.
How Much Eye Protection Is Enough? Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health (eLCOSH), (2002, February). Provides help in determining when more eye protection is needed.

Free material you can use:

If you are in the process of developing a hand safety program at your business you may want to download the following sample course outline to get started.

Personal Protective Equipment Sample Course Outline

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