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Notice to Readers: Healthy Vision Month --- May 2006
May is Healthy Vision Month. The theme this year is Eye Safety at Work Is Everyone's Business, and the focus is
on reducing occupational eye injuries. An estimated 300,000 persons with work-related eye injuries and illnesses are treated
in U.S. hospital emergency departments each year
(1), representing approximately one third of all medically treated
occupational eye injuries and illnesses in the United States
(2). Among private industry employers, approximately 37,000 eye injuries
and illnesses resulting in one or more days away from work occur each year
(3).
Healthy People 2010 objectives include reducing the rate of occupational eye injuries and illnesses among U.S. workers.
To aid in this goal, the National Eye Institute, National Safety Council, and CDC's National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, in collaboration with the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, have cosponsored this
year's Healthy Vision Month and launched an educational campaign to increase occupational eye injury awareness.
Information to assist employers, workers, and communities in reducing workplace eye injuries is available at
http://www.healthyvision2010.org/hvm.
References
CDC. Work-related injury statistics query system (Work--RISQS). US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health; 2002. Available at
http://www2a.cdc.gov/risqs.
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lost-worktime injuries and illnesses: characteristics and resulting time away from work, 2004. Washington, DC:
US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2005. Available at
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/osh2.pdf.
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