VDU User Eye Examinations

Your employer is required by European Health and Safety Law to pay for your eye examination if you habitually use a computer screen for periods of over an hour daily at work.

Zafash Optics examines VDU users according to the Association of Optometrists guidelines. According to guidelines, it is required that when a VDU eye test is booked by an employee, they will let us know what the environment around the screen is like and what their work involves.

Zafash Optics carry out a routine eye examination incorporating any necessary extra tests to find out that the vision is appropriately focused for the screen distance, that the eyes are working in a balanced manner and that the work does not cause any excess strain on the vision.

If required, advice on changing the way that users work at a screen will be provided and if necessary glasses are recommended specifically for that job; although this is only required on average by a small percentage of people. Because the test involves routine checks it will also provide an up-to-date prescription for those people who need and my already be using glasses anyway.

Zafash Optics do not charge extra and all this is covered in our standard eye test fee! So for the employee it doesn’t cost them anything.