From this information, cost effective preventive measures can be employed to decrease the incidence of eye injuries at an installation. It can be used to gather the information to develop an OVP metric. For clarification of any requirement, please examine these publications listed earlier. Each base should have a regulation outlining the roles and responsibilities within the occupational vision program. Click here to view a template of a base instruction.
Safety glasses are an integral part of the occupational vision program.
This program is run by base safety and advised by the BEE section. Optometry's support is described in the template base instruction . Safety glasses are highly visible and of high interest to your wing commander. The procurement of safety glasses was discussed in a previous chapter under Ophthalmic Services and can also be found in the template base instruction. An important part of the OVP is training and educating personnel on vision safety.