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Unchecked eyesight poses safety risk
Many middle-aged UK workers are avoiding attending a sight test and potentially endangering the safety of others as a result. According to a recent report from the College of Optometrists, one in five drivers aged between 35 and 55 has driven despite knowing they have poor eyesight. The report also found that as many as 9% of middle-aged workers operate heavy machinery, knowing their eyesight is not correct. In the study, 28% of respondents said they had put off going for an eye test for up to six months after realizing their eyesight had deteriorated and 21% put it of...
News | 11 Mar 2009
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Eye tests for DSE Users
Where the DSE user is employed by an Agency rather than directly by the County Council, it is the responsibility of that Agency to pay for the eye and eyesight test and to make a contribution to any corrective appliances required.
Comment | 29 Jan 2010
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Free Eye sight tests - DSE
I understand that regulation 5 stipulates that anyone who is classified as a DSE user, is entitled to a free eye and eyesight test from their employer should they request one. I also understand that if needed the employer has to also fund corrective appliances but I am not sure if there is a limit for how much we (the employer) have to pay, especially if we only have to provide basic frames. I see that...
Comment | 20 Jul 2009
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Eyesight tests
Eye tests, when conducted under standard conditions, are both objective and accurate; substantially better than many other 'medical' tests undertaken. The DVLA have selected a number plate test that does not correspond exactly to one line of letters on a standard Snellen chart used by GPs and optician...
Comment | 17 Mar 2009
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Eyesight tests
Andrew, thanks for devils advocate response that i shall counter for the sake of a good discussion. 1 eyesight tests also include an eye examination for disease that a GP is also qualified to undertake under DSE regulations. 2. refractive should also include a determination whether client may be photo-sensitive and/or night myopic risk factors specifically for drivers You are however completely r...
Comment | 17 Mar 2009
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Eyesight tests
Ian Thank you for rasing this the requiremeng for an eyesight test may be just one of a number of requiremenst that as employers we are not requiring from our staff who use thier vehicles in the course oif thier employment. I am part of a medium sized public organisation employing in excess of 6000 staff and also volunteers. The issue of the 'Grey ...
Comment | 13 Mar 2009
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Eye Sight Tests
...le. It is better for users to be able to take breaks as they feel the need, rather than having a set pattern. The employer should ensure, through management and supervision, that adequate breaks are being taken. Eyesight tests and corrective appliances Regulation 5 concerns the provision of eye and eyesight tests and payment for certain types of corrective appliance (or glasses). All new users and anyone who was a user at 1 January 1993 are entitled to ask for an eye and eyesight test under this regulation. This must be provided, by the employer, free of charge, making use of a 'competent person'. I...
Comment | 15 Jan 2009
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Eye Sight Tests
Anonymous - Reg 5 states that employers have a duty to ensure the provision of appropriate eye and eyesight tests ON REQUEST to employees who already use DSE (display screen equipment) ad also to people who are being recruited to be a user. That seems to fit the description of someone 'on probation' to me. The requirement is universal, not a perk earned by long service. The actual legislation states that the ...
Comment | 7 Jan 2009
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Eye tests for DSE Users
Andrew, the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 simply require that users of DSE, amongst other things, have eye and eyesight tests. Specifically the Regulations say that the employer "shall ensure that [the employee]is provided at his request with an appropriate eye and eyesight test, any such test to be carried out by a competent person". Provided that you do that then you are complying with the law. I can see no obj...
Comment | 18 May 2006
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Do you need to offer staff free eye tests?
...eir right to a free eye test.' Key points (source: HSE) - The regulations that cover VDU work are the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992. Regulation 5 requires employers to provide users who request it with an appropriate eye and eyesight test. - The provision of eye and eyesight tests and of special corrective appliances under the Regulations is at the expense of the user's employer. This is the case even if the user works on other employers' workstations. Employers are free to specify that users' tests and correction are provided by a particular company or professional. - Us...
News | 24 Jun 2002
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Eye Sight Tests
...frequency of testing. The frequency will vary between individuals according to factors such as age. Opticians normally suggest 2 year interval for ordinary spectacle wearers, so this would be a good guideline. The duty on Employers is to provide a test where a user requests one. The provision of eye and eyesight tests and of special corrective appliances under the DSE Regulations is at the expense of the Employer. Hope this helps .....
Comment | 12 Nov 2004
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Eyesight tests
The relationship beteween eye test results and risk of motor vehicle accident is very grey indeed if you exclude extreme loss of visual accuity from the discussion. The number plate test has been shown to be unreliable: excluding from driving those who are more than able to drive safely and including within driving those wh...
Comment | 16 Mar 2009
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DSE assessor training - DSE courses
...ct the health of workers by reducing risks from VDU work. Briefly, the Regulations require employers to: analyse workstations to assess and reduce risks; ensure workstations meet specified minimum requirements; plan work activities so that they include breaks or changes of activity; provide eye and eyesight tests on request, and special spectacles if needed; and provide information and training. Because of the nature of the risks, an individual assessment is required for each DSE training user; therefore many organisations choose to train people as DSE assessors in order to fulfill this function. Thi...
Course_code | 10 Feb 2012
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Glasses Contribution
The guidance in the Health & Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 (as amended etc) in Regulation 5 is that the provision of eye and eyesight tests and of special corrective appliances is at the expense of the EMPLOYER. Not at the discretion, at the expense. Your optician's professional code of ethics will incorporate the principle to issue new prescriptions only when necessary for the health of the patient, not the health of the practice's ...
Comment | 25 Aug 2011
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DSE regulations: both employers and employees are unaware
...oyer to pay for a sight test if they use a computer screen or electronic till at work, a new study has revealed. The study, conducted by the College of Optometrists, also found that the employees who are aware of their rights are reluctant to assert them to their employers, with 15% of those surveyed stating it would make them feel “greedy” or “inappropriate”. The research was conducted after optometrists realised that although people use VDU screens more than ever, they were seeing fewer and fewer people, suggesting that employee and employer awareness of the Display Screen Equipme...
News | 15 May 2008
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Age discrimination law to extend to goods and services?
...e from foreseeable risk of feeling belittled in front of their peers. There may, of course, also be a claim under Human Rights of the Child for being held captive (no choice under education law) and then humiliated in public when all that is wrong with them is visual stress caused by poor or low eyesight. Eye sight and hearing tests along with having your innoculations in school were all once available to all children not just those who were well behaved, compliant and had parents who either stood up for their childs right to access free health care or made sure they could pay for health ca...
Comment | 2 Jun 2008
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Eye Sight Tests
Further to the question of when an eyesight test can be requested I have an employer who has stated as a person is on 3 month probation period the person is not entitled to an eyesight test and the associated costs for any glassed required for DSE use. Is this legal!! as I am at loggerheads with this one.
Comment | 3 Oct 2007
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Eye Sight Tests
Can an eyesight test and cost towards glasses be claimed regardless of which optician you visit? Some companies have designated opticians to which you must visit in order to claim costs - is this legal?
Comment | 20 Sep 2007
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Eye tests for DSE Users
I am currently putting in the DSE policy within the company I work for and although I understand that we must pay for the eye/eyesight test. Just wondered in regards to contributing towards new glasses - is there a minimum amount we have to contribute or is it down to the Managers discretion ?
Comment | 1 Jun 2007
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Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
...omeworking. The Regulations set out the criteria for ensuring that the daily work routine of users will not contribute towards any of the risks identified earlier and advises on the nature and timing of breaks. If you are a user or operator, Regulation 5 places a duty upon the employer to provide eyesight tests and special corrective appliances (normally spectacles) for DSE use. The Regulations require that all users or operators be provided with information on a number of relevant points including: the DSE Regulations themselves; risk assessment and means of reducing risk; ...
Regulation | 1 Jan 1993
