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So over the years my encounters with employer provision has been for an eye-sight test and where specified by the optician single vision corrective devices. These regulations have not been significantly updated since their inception and assume a worker at a permanent work station with a single display unit. Today I have a simultaneous user of three screens (think stock exchange trader, designers etc.) presenting a dual vision prescription and reading the regulations it would appear our current policy is not fit for purpose. Before setting off to re-write I am curious what policy other companies developed regarding prescriptions?
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So over the years my encounters with employer provision has been for an eye-sight test and where specified by the optician single vision corrective devices. These regulations have not been significantly updated since their inception and assume a worker at a permanent work station with a single display unit. Today I have a simultaneous user of three screens (think stock exchange trader, designers etc.) presenting a dual vision prescription and reading the regulations it would appear our current policy is not fit for purpose. Before setting off to re-write I am curious what policy other companies developed regarding prescriptions?
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I have had vary focal glass's for my last 3 prescriptions
(so nearly 6 years) but not specifically for VDU use so my employer contributes
nothing towards then - only my eyesight check. It’s only where the VDU is the
only thing that falls within that focal length, that you need contribute, and as
annoying as it may be for this person you only need pay the cost of a single prescription
for the VDU. In the interest of job efficiency you may want to contribute the
cost of a single lens prescription towards the spectacles ( Bifocals/vary
focals tend to be more expensive)
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(5) Every employer shall ensure that each user employed by him is provided with special corrective appliances appropriate for the work being done by the user concerned where– (a) normal corrective appliances cannot be used; and (b) the result of any eye and eyesight test which the user has been given in accordance with this regulation shows such provision to be necessary. I read the above to mean that if your normal reading glasses are not sufficient, and to do the work you need to do, you need to frequently change focal length of what you are looking at, be it two computer screens or paperwork and computer screen then the employer should provide it. It is not practical to read something off some paperwork, then change your glasses to use the computer, indeed the keyboard and screen will be different distances away. Nowhere does it say you only have to provide single vision corrective appliances, it states appropriate for work being done.
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Thanks Chris
that is my interpretation of the regulations - our policy was originally drafted by an external consultant many years ago when computer screens were single 4:3 ratio devices.
Even though the screens are arranged in a semi-circle (so one would presume equal focal length) as they are not identical units (screen size, resolution, refresh rates) the optician is recommending vari-focals.
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Thanks Chris
that is my interpretation of the regulations - our policy was originally drafted by an external consultant many years ago when computer screens were single 4:3 ratio devices.
Even though the screens are arranged in a semi-circle (so one would presume equal focal length) as they are not identical units (screen size, resolution, refresh rates) the optician is recommending vari-focals.
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Originally Posted by: Roundtuit  Today I have a simultaneous user of three screens (think stock exchange trader, designers etc.) presenting a dual vision prescription and reading the regulations it would appear our current policy is not fit for purpose. Before setting off to re-write I am curious what policy other companies developed regarding prescriptions?
Are the three screens at different distances from the eyes? I work with multiple screens (most of the people in this office work with multiple largish screens), but they are all arranged such that they are at about the same distance from the eyes. They are set out on an arc sentred about the users face.
Screen size, resolution and refresh rate have got absolutly nothing whatsoever to do with focal length. Varifocal lenses are about focusing at differnet distances from the eyes, not about the characteristics of what it is you focus on at any particular distance.
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Papragraph 87 of L26 refers.
Typical varifocal applications include receptionists, CCTV monitor stations, etc. Provision of varifocals is valid.
That said, I remain of the opinion that these Regulations are outdated and the provision of eyecare unwarranted. Effort would be better expended on the eyecare of professional drivers and machine operators.
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