Preventing visual disorders in the workplace (tertiary)
The amount of time spent using screens is increasing among the different age groups of the population. At the same time, employees complain of recurring symptoms: headaches, fatigue, headache at the end of the day, red eyes, stinging, tugging, dry eyes, etc.
The functional signs of these complaints are well known: stamina and fatigue, blurred or even double vision, letters that get mixed up, difficulty in focusing, frequent changes in distance, ...
Why? Simply because working on a screen solicits the muscles of convergence and accommodation, and this solicitation leads to fatigue, especially due to lack of training.
It is therefore necessary, in the same way as for other occupational risks, to raise awareness and equip employees to prevent visual disorders.
Objectives
This training, given by an experienced orthoptist, aims to help employees acquire the knowledge and correct adjustments to preserve their visual health at work.
Based on the most advanced recommendations in the field, its pedagogical approach allows the transmission of knowledge and good practices to participants, which effectively and durably correct bad adjustments and postures and ensure a comfortable and safe work on screen.
It aims to enable trainees to:
- Understand the mechanisms and functioning of the eye
- Understanding the impact of screens on visual health
- Know how to detect the warning signs of a problem
- Advise on the prevention of ocular pathologies, especially those related to age
- Set up your workstation to prevent these disorders
- Know how to direct employees to the appropriate health care professional
Content
The mechanisms and functions of the eye
- Anatomy
- The 4 optical defects of the eye
- Accommodation, convergence and fusion
- Working distances
Impacts of screens on visual health
- Frequently encountered disorders
- The constraints of near vision
- The link between the complaint and its cause
Preventing and adapting your workstation
- Adjustment of the workstation
- Conditions of use of the screens (in particular the luminous environments, reflections, etc.)
- The blue light
- Exercises and recommendations (e.g.: blinking, pauses, relaxation, ...)
- Specificities of progressive lenses
Knowing the actors of the vision to orientate the employees as needed
- Difference between disorders and pathologies
- The skills of the various vision professionals
- Importance of screening
- Specificities according to the states
Teaching methods
- Contribution of knowledge
- Exchanges
- Implementation
- Verification of ownership
