The collision preventing device is used for an optical pickup device for recording or reproducing information to or from an optical information recording medium. The collision preventing device has a shock absorbing layer to prevent a contact of an objective lens and a surface of the recording medium. The shock absorbing layer is laminated on the portion extending from the circumferential edge of the effective-diameter area of the objective lens to the outside edge or to the outside of the objective lens and has a thickness in such a manner that the shock absorbing layer comes in contact with the surface of the recording medium prior to the effective-diameter area, when the objective lens comes close to the surface of the recording medium.