Understand the impact of environmental factors on the eye, and the optometric management of environmentally produced ocular and visual problems. Brief optometric aspects of occupational health and safety. Eye hazards, eye protection, ocular first-aid, ocular and visual factors in the workplace, visual ergonomics, visual standards, vision screening, lighting design, epidemiology of occupational eye disease. Handling of clinical and occupational data. Occupational health and safety law. Visual aspects of driving and aviation. The screen-based equipment user. This course aims to use the foundation knowledge gained in earlier courses, to show how the environment and vision of the individual can be optimised for the efficient performance of visual tasks.
