You might think your family home is a fairly safe and unthreatening place, what you didn’t know is that your home is a very common place to suffer from eye injuries! More than half of the reported eye injuries occur in the comfort of your own home!

Eye Injury Risk in the House

• Using hazardous products and chemicals such as oven cleaner and bleach for cleaning and other chores. (Accidents involving common household products cause 125,000 eye injuries each year).
  
• Splattering hot grease and oil while cooking.
• Opening champagne bottles during a celebration.
• Drilling or hammering nails into the walls or other hard surfaces ( the screws/nails can become projectiles or fragments can come off the surface.
• Using hot objects such as curling irons around the face.
• Loose rugs and railings that could potentially cause slips or falls.

Injury Risk in the Yard

• Mowing the lawn.
  
• Clipping hedges and bushes.
• Debris of dust or falling trees, branches.

Eye Injury Risks in the Garage or Workshop

• The use of tools (power or hand).
  
• Working with solvents or other chemicals.
• Ding any task that can produce fragments, dust particles or other eye irritants.
• Keep in mind, bystanders also face a significant risk and should also take part in the necessary precautions to prevent injuries to the eye.

Remember to always wear eye protection and use equipment in a safe manner.