Eye Hazards In Industry PDF Download

Excerpt from Eye Hazards in Industrial Occupations: A Report of Typical Cases and Conditions, With Recommendations for Safe Practice Between August 8 and November 8, 1916, a survey of representative industries in the city of Buffalo was made by the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness. The study was made at the invitation of a large number of leading citizens of Buffalo, the object being to ascertain the local working conditions and the industrial accident hazards which might be productive of eye injuries. The present publication has grown out of this survey. Starting with the Buffalo study as a basis, endeavor has been made to cover also practically the entire field of hazards to the eyes in industrial occupations in the United States, with the hope that the suggestions contained herein may be welcomed in industrial concerns generally. The usefulness and timeliness of this pamphlet are accentuated because of the abnormal demand for labor due to wartime conditions, with the consequent independent attitude of the worker, which has had a marked influence on safety work. Therefore the educational efforts of the different plants for the elimination or reduction of accidents have received the most severe test, for in normal times a worker may observe shop rules and regulations largely in order to insure his employment. Where the working force has been greatly increased, we may expect the new employes to be subject to more injuries than under normal conditions. The rushed work and the large number of new employes unacquainted with the plant conditions, together with the impossibility of foremen giving to each the proper amount of attention, are in some measure responsible for an increased toll of injury. The large floating supply of labor can receive but little safety education, and these workers are a constant source of worry to safety engineers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.