When something is in your eye, the time to test the effectiveness of the nearest emergency eye wash station has passed. It better work. The only way to ensure that it will is to test it in advance. Seems like that's Safety 101, and it should be. Here are some measures you need to take so that you can administer immediate treatment.
Now that you have determined that the station works, you are not done. Eyes are small targets, especially when they are squinched up in pain and/or discomfort. So you need to do some diagnostics.
The good news is that emergency eye-wash stations go for long periods of time unused. We want that. But we also want them to work when needed. So put them to the test regularly.
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