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Post by angelislington on Jul 28, 2008 11:49:00 GMT
hiya,
I'm interested to know what kind of tests would-be drivers must have for their eyesight. I did once, ages ago, ask Recruitment if there was a standard minimum, but apparently it is/was measured in a different way from the usual opticians' measurements of, say, -5 for short sight and +5 for long. How is it tested?
Aside from that, is there any test covering peripheral vision and the ability to cope with going from very bright conditions to very dark? (Thinking in particular here of the Dissie where the driver has to contend with lots of short sections of tunnel/open air in quick succession.)
Once the drivers get the jobs, how often is sight retested?
From my point of view (a staggering -11 in one eye & -12 in the other) I know there's no way I'd qualify, even though I'm OK to drive with correction (face furniture or lenses). But I suppose it's because my sight is so bad that I'm interested in this.
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Post by Chris M on Jul 28, 2008 13:30:46 GMT
I know we had a thread a couple of years back about laser eye correction surgery and contact lenses (I haven't got time atm to search for it right now). I know that in that thread I found information that was even then several years old. Has this been updated? Given the technology is much more mature, I would imagine that there would be much less speculation than was evident in what available back then.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2008 13:35:17 GMT
I believe my CSA sight test (taken in November 2006) was enough for me to start driver training, which I passed in Sept. 07 and started training for in April 08. I have always had very good eyesight so it may be that that is why they didn't bother to retest it - had I been closer to borderline they may have done.
I *think*, though I'm not positive, that sight is retested at different rates for different ages, as part of a standard medical covering hearing and such as well. So as a newish driver of 25 years old, mine is every five years, I think. Once you get older, the frequency increases. I am not positive about the actual frequencies, though, especially since I gather it chops and changes around quite a bit. Presumably if any incident occured where it was possible that my sight had caused a situation, or made it worse, they could request me to go for one before the scheduled date, though again I'm not sure.
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Post by angelislington on Jul 29, 2008 20:25:29 GMT
That's interesting. I assumed only drivers would need sight tests.
What kind of test was it? Did it involve the one with the little dots on a screen to test for peripheral vision, and so on? How do they check for night-blindness?
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Post by c5 on Jul 29, 2008 21:17:59 GMT
That's interesting. I assumed only drivers would need sight tests. What kind of test was it? Did it involve the one with the little dots on a screen to test for peripheral vision, and so on? How do they check for night-blindness? It is part of your track and safety critical licence (though if you fail on some parts you can still do certain jobs but with restrictions). I've done the colour book, and letter chart with both and one eye, an reading from a book. A nice nurse also whispers into your ear for hearing! I haven't had a medical for over 5 years though! |
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Post by Colin on Jul 29, 2008 21:57:34 GMT
As stated, anyone that may have access to the track has to pass both colour & distance sight tests - these are initially done at LU's Occupational Health unit by trained medical staff using the usual coloured dots/numbers and letter chart methods.
All safety critical licence staff are re-tested annually when they re-qualify their licence's (usually a trainer with a Bardic lamp and some made up number plates).
Glasses are acceptable, but not being a wearer, I'm not too sure on what the exact limitations are.
Full medicals are done at 35, 45, 55, 60 then annually......IIRC.
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Post by Rich32 on Jul 30, 2008 0:08:09 GMT
Full medicals are done at 35, 45, 55, 60 then annually......IIRC. 30, 40, 50 and 60, then annually. You do some kind of interim Medical Questionnaire at 35, 45 and 55. |
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Post by chrish on Jul 30, 2008 13:24:44 GMT
Full medicals are done at 35, 45, 55, 60 then annually......IIRC. 30, 40, 50 and 60, then annually. You do some kind of interim Medical Questionnaire at 35, 45 and 55. Ok, if I dare put a third option out there! Having just done a medical questionnaire at work, I'd swear that the top of the form said it was only for 25 and 35... all other multiples of 5 up to 60 are full medicals. |
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