## Abstract ## Background Despite the human and monetary costs of occupational injury and illness, occupational health care has focused more on treatment than prevention, and prevention is not part of many clinical occupational health practices. This represents a failure of occupational health car
Occupational health services
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-6870
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โฆ Synopsis
Of the 2701 respondents to the survey questionnaire, all of whom had eye injuries, 1138 or 42% were wearing protection at the time of their injury. 10"5% of these had the object or particle that damaged the eye penetrate the lens or body of the protector. Despite industrial safety programmes to which most workers are exposed, the survey reveals that injury rates remain significant.
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