The federal Occupational Health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designates July as Eye Injury Prevention Month, meaning now is the ideal time to reinforce for employees that eye protection is a lifestyle rather than a workplace dictate. The fact is, according to OSHA, approximately 2,000 workers per day are affected by preventable eye injuries, while 44.1 percent of these eye injuries occur at home, says the Healthcare Cost and Utilization project. Metro™ safety eyewear from Gateway Safety is designed to embrace and encourage the constant approach to vigilant protection by delivering modern-day styling and the comfort that true compliance requires.

“People encounter eye hazards on and off the job,” says Matthew Love, Gateway Safety vice president. “Our goal is to increase compliance on the job by providing safety glasses that employees will want to wear, even after they leave work. And, hopefully, eye protection will simply become more a part of a safety-aware lifestyle.”