title: Fire fighter vision standards.
abstract: Fire fighting is a physically and visually demanding occupation. Because of the severe visual demands and the high costs of nonperformance it is necessary to establish minimum vision levels that become requirements for new fire fighters. These vision standards must be based as nearly as possible upon the specific visual needs of the occupational tasks. This paper examines the visual tasks of fire fighters and recommends visual standards.
mesh_terms: D005390:Fires; D006801:Humans; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014792:Visual Acuity