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Further to the comment by Ruth Pott [head of employment affairs for the Road Haulage Association], eyesight is certainly an issue within the industry ( CM28 Nov-4 Dec). We perhaps didn't anticipate the full scale of it, which now makes the initiative taken all the more rewarding.
As a company wishing to improve and enhance our safety record, to demonstrate to insurers and to be safe on the road, some months ago we added a new weapon to our armoury. This was in the shape of a Keystone Eyesight Screening Scanner.
As the driver assessor in the company, and having worked with the Keystone for many years, the purchase of this equipment seemed like a good investment and a forward looking management made the purchase. Since then recent recruitment has invariably included eyesight screening and the results have been most enlightening.
Without exception we have had people whose eyesight has not reached the benchmark— once four out of six potential recruits were below par. I even got our human resource manager to take the test, just to
satisfy myself that everything was still working properly.
Our results have given us food for thought. Now at least we are finding the problem even before a test drive takes place.
However, a word of caution: an eyesight chart on a wall may seem better than nothing but the ways around it and various scams are legion. The chart then becomes a placebo.
I recommend a determined effort; I feel we are seeing the proof of ours.
Jim Boyd,
Driver assessor, Bondekvery Storage & astribution, Setrast.