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Eye Care Safety Continued

The Importance of Hygiene
Protecting yourself from becoming the victim of a foreign body in your eye is more than just PPE, its personal hygiene.
Let me say that in a different way, personal hygiene. Why do I stress that part? Because no one can do it for you, and
how you take care of yourself is the difference between working safely where FBE’s are common and seeing the Doc
at an eye clinic. So what are the basics?
A. Maintain your PPE - Particles already on the inside of your mask/goggles/glasses are just as big a threat as any-
thing the PPE protects you from.
B. Wear it right - Keep facial hair trimmed to allow the PPE to seal, keep hair covered and remove hair coverings
and shake off before removing PPE.
C. FBE’s are more than dust - Cleaning chemicals, fuels, hydraulic spray, there are a lot of reasons to need FBE
PPE.
D. Wipe off before you pull it off - The particles that become an FBE tend to collect on the top of mask/goggles/
glasses. Take a cleaning wipe and wipe your brow, get the gunk off the PPE and your forehead so it doesn’t fall into
your eyes, or run into them in sweat.
E. Don’t rinse towards your eyes - Get clean immediately after your shift, tilt your head back and rinse away from
your eyes so anything in your hair goes down the drain instead of into your eyes.

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