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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2 (June, 1926)

Protect Your Eyes

Protect Your Eyes.

The use of goggles for the protection of the eyes is availed of in but very few instances in our workshops and on the locomotive footplate where eye injuries are daily occurrences. The best evidence confirms the wisdom of their adoption by all employees exposed to eye injuries as the simplest and safest method of protection. In commenting on the use of goggles for this purpose the Chicago Great Western “R.R. Magazine” reports thirty-three cases where they had prevented damage to the eye, and in several instances the goggles prevented the loss of an eye. In a seven months period, moreover, fifty-four eye injuries were revealed as having been prevented by the wearing of goggles, and nine injuries that goggles would have prevented had they been worn. This is an excellent record and its lesson is plain, “Wear goggles and save your eyes.”