| Eye wash stations are essential part to any | | | | accident is essential, and every care should be |
| business strategy to maintain a safe workplace. In | | | | taken to offer the best quality of first aid |
| any environment where there is a risk of foreign | | | | treatment in the event of an accident. The first |
| bodies or chemicals getting into the eyes of staff, | | | | 15 seconds after the spill are the most important |
| such as an industrial setting or factory, it is | | | | in terms of reducing swelling, and long term |
| absolutely essential that the management of the | | | | damage. By having them within 25 feet of any |
| facility do all that they can in order to maintain the | | | | place where an accident is likely to occur, you can |
| highest levels of safety and protection for their | | | | be sure that your staff are well protected. |
| employees. Although any staff who are in any | | | | You should choose an eye wash station that is |
| way at risk of coming into contact with | | | | highly visible in the workplace, and make sure that |
| dangerous chemicals or loose grit and debris | | | | front line staff are comfortable in how it works, |
| should wear appropriate safety goggles or safety | | | | and even how to open it. Seconds really do count |
| glasses, accidents do happen, and having these in | | | | in the case of an eye injury, so make sure that |
| place to deal with any eventuality will enable your | | | | everyone knows what to do in the event of an |
| staff to be protected in the event of an accident. | | | | accident. |
| This will reduce your liability in the event of an | | | | Keeping them completely stocked with the right |
| accident, but more importantly, will do a great | | | | eye wash solutions for your workplace is |
| deal to minimize the chances of an employee | | | | important. Generally regular eye wash that you |
| suffering any long term damage to their eyes as | | | | would find in a supermarket is unsuitable for the |
| a result of an accident. | | | | job at hand, and you need to invest in a proper |
| An Eye Wash Station is a wall mounted facility | | | | eye wash solution for an industrial environment, |
| where all the equipment necessary to rinse debris | | | | as this will be chemically designed to offer the |
| or spray from the eyes is kept. All staff should | | | | best protection for any victims of a spill. |
| be aware of where in the building it is placed, and | | | | Check the levels in all of your workplace eye |
| full training should be offered to an appropriate | | | | wash stations as regularly as possible - at least |
| number of staff to ensure that in the event of | | | | once a week, because there is nothing worse |
| someone needing to use them, there will be | | | | than a member of staff having an accident, and |
| proper care available to them. | | | | then vital seconds being lost because the closest |
| Regulations about the equipping of an industrial | | | | station is empty of solution. |
| facility require that they should be available within | | | | All in all, providing appropriate industrial safety |
| 10 seconds of the working area, and contain | | | | equipment in the workplace is a vital role for any |
| enough materials and water to allow for 15 | | | | employer, and is also a legal requirement. One |
| minutes of continuous washing of the eyes. If a | | | | way of being certain that your facility meets the |
| strong caustic agent or acid is being used in the | | | | various regulations that apply, is to fully equip it |
| workplace, the eye wash station should be | | | | with enough stations to protect the health of |
| immediately at hand in order to be sure to | | | | your staff in the event of an accident. Even if |
| minimize the possibility of long term damage in | | | | they are never needed, simply having them there |
| the event of an accidental spillage. | | | | will give employees a constant reminder of their |
| Protection the eyesight of a victim of an industrial | | | | own responsibility to work safely. |