Practical principles of the prevention of occupational eye injuries.

The prevention of eye accidents is one part in the whole field of occupational safety which can be carried out in the most clear-cut manner. Solution patterns are easily mapped out and applied to use. Eye accidents occur mostly in the metal industry but are spreading through the whole field of industry from year to year. The principles of the prevention of eye accidents can be applied as an example for many other branches of occupational safety and thus models of functions created by the enterprise for sight protection can be projected to other prevention points.