Love Your Eyes at Work on World Sight Day 2023

This year World Sight Day in October will focus on helping people understand the importance of protecting their vision in the workplace and calling on business leaders to prioritise the eye health of workers, everywhere.

Since 2009, Safe Work Australia has led a national campaign each October to build community awareness and knowledge of work health and safety. So for us, it highlights even more the importance of collaboratively and collectively reminding us all to Love Your Eyes at Work.

We know that the world is a safer, more productive place when we prioritise the eye health of its workforce. The research tells us that correcting vision with glasses increases productivity by more than 20%, decreases rates of early retirement.

These figures and many more paint a picture of the critical importance of eye care in the workplace. We want to bring the world’s attention to how integral eye care is to all places of work, and this year World Sight Day will be doing just that under the umbrella theme – ‘Love Your Eyes at Work’.

Under the theme, Love Your Eyes at Work, people from farms to factory floors, from taxi ranks to tech startups, will be following the lead of IAPB and its network of eye health organisations around the world to focus on how everyone can play a part in making eye care a priority in the workplace.

Helping businesses to take the necessary steps to ensure their workforce, at all levels, are aware of the measures to protect their eyesight and access eye care wherever and whenever they need it.

Did you know that there are approximately 50,000 eye injuries per year in Australia, costing around $60 million. Eight per cent of workplace injuries are eye injuries and each year about seven in 1000 workers sustain an eye injury.  An estimated 60 per cent of all eye injuries in Australia occur in the workplace.

We would love everyone to do their part in prioritising their eye health. Book in for an eye check today. Better still link in with your local Optometrist and organise a screening at your office, business centre, factory and champion eye care today.