title: Testing visual capabilities for medical surveillance or to ensure job fitness.
abstract: A rationale is presented for designing screening-type eye examinations to document visual capabilities for specific jobs or changes in visual function following exposure to specific ocular hazards. Possible applications to clinical situations are also discussed. A battery of tests that includes contrast (glare) sensitivity, distortions in macular imaging, and color vision is detailed for use with three populations: automobile driver's license applicants, visual display operators, and laser users, including military as well as nonmilitary installers and repairers of optical fibers for communications.
mesh_terms: D001334:Automobile Driving; D003119:Color Perception Tests; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D014787:Vision Tests / Q000379:methods*; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014794:Visual Fields