Routine eye and vision examination play a critical role in preventive eye care. Since many eye and vision problems go unnoticed, having no symptoms or obvious signs, only routine comprehensive eye examinations discover them early enough to avoid loss of vision. To keep the eyes healthy and maintain excellent vision, eye and vision problems must be diagnosed and treated early.
iCare Clinics aims to foster a healthy and safe work environment. As strong advocates of preventive eye care, our team of professionals provide organisations and communities with health and safety education, with emphasis on ocular protection and nutrition. We therefore advocate the use of protective eyewear, such as, face shields, full face respirators, safety glasses or goggles.
Since the eye protection chosen for specific work situation depends on the type of hazards associated with the task, circumstance of exposure, personal vision needs and other factors, we provide eye safety consultancy services.
This includes the provision of eye health and eye safety education, policy writing for workplace peak performance and eye safety workplace assessment.
Routine eye examinations reveal the visual status and eye health of potential staff. Many organisations find this useful since poor eye health and vision can greatly reduce the effectiveness and efficiency of workers. Pre-employment Vision screening helps ensures productivity levels.
Vision is critical for education and visual problems pose a great threat to the learning process, especially since 80% of what a child learns in school is presented visually. Visual skills such as distance and near vision, eye movement skills, eye focusing skills, peripheral awareness, eye hand coordination, and binocularity (eye-teaming skills) are needed by children for learning.
School eye/vision health brings eye care closer to children, whose rapid growth sometimes means changing eye care needs. Since pupils/students spend most of their wake time in school, school health programs guarantee early detection and resolution of health conditions that could affect a child’s vision and education.
Contact lenses are an alternative correction for refractive errors such as myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), astigmatism and presbyopia. For fashion (changing the apparent colour of the eyes), to enjoy sports and outdoor events, or just to avoid wearing eyeglasses, contact lenses make for a great substitute to eyeglasses. Also contact lenses are used to treat certain eye diseases. To ensure safe use of contact lenses and continuous wear without harm, a contact lens examination is recommended every year.
Vision is critical for driving and visual problems in drivers pose a threat not only to the driver, but also to passengers and other pedestrian road users. Visual skills for driving include good distance and near visual acuity, colour vision and adequate peripheral visual field. Organisations and parks who recommend their drivers to participate in the iCare drivers’ vision screening ensure that their drivers have the minimum visual status necessary for good driving.