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Are you doing enough to protect yourself from work-related eye injury? According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 2,000 US workers daily sustain an eye injury that's serious enough to merit hospital room treatment. Most of these injuries are the result of small particles or projectiles shooting towards the worker's eye. Others, however, may come from tool/equipment kickback.Impact-Resistant EyewearLet's first discuss the most important solution to preventing work- …

Do you experience work-related stress on a regular basis? If so, you aren't alone. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), nearly 7 in 10 Americans report physical symptoms caused by stress. This may include increased blood pressure, trouble sleeping, indigestion, headaches, muscle tension and other related problems. Whether you experience any of these symptoms or not, you should take action to reduce your stress levels.Allowing your stress levels to rise unchecked can lead to …

If not, you should. With summer now upon us, many employees will be working long hours in the hot sun. The combination of heat and physical exertion can lead to exhaustion, placing workers at a greater risk for injury and illness. When workers become fatigued, a number of physiological changes begin to occur, one of which is slower reaction times. It may take a fatigued worker longer from the time when his or her brain to processes a task to actually doing it. And when the task involves som …

Tens of thousands of U.S. workers are injured or killed on the job each year. While these numbers have declined over the past few decades -- thanks in part to the formation of OSHA -- work-related injury remains a top priority for employers and government officials alike. But what are some of the most common types of injuries sustained on the job?The insurance company Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety recently set out to answer this question in its 2014 Workplace Safety Index. The Ind …

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced plans to crackdown on healthcare facilities in violation of its worker safety standards. When most people think of dangerous jobs, healthcare probably doesn't come to mind. After all, conventional wisdom should lead you to believe that healthcare workers have a lower risk of sustaining a job-related injury or illness when compared to workers in other industries. But this isn't always the case, as many healthcare worke …