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Chapter outline
| Action and exclusion criteria | Referral and management |
Educational Aims
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
Discuss and identify abnormal results in vision screeningCorrectly refer workers with abnormal results
Implement the required interventions
Report and record actions
Key Terms / Abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Explanation |
| CC | Compensation Commissioner |
| COIDA | Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Disease Act No. 130 of 1993 (including Instruction 171) |
| COP | Code of Practice |
| DMRE | Department of Mineral Resources and Energy |
| DEL | Department of Employment and Labour |
| OHNP | Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner (Nurse) |
| OHP | Occupational Health Practitioner (Nurse or Doctor) |
| OMP | Occupational Medicine Practitioner (Doctor) |
| PD | Permanent Disability |
| VPP | Vision Protection Programme |
| Term | Definition |
| Employment | Is a working relationship between two parties, usually based on contract where work is paid for, and services are provided. |
| Exposure | The state of having no protection from something harmful. Exposure refers to when an employee is subjected to a hazard in the course of employment through any route of entry (inhalation, ingestion, skin contact or absorption, etc.), and includes potential, accidental or possible, exposure. |
| Grandfather Clause | A grandfather clause is an exemption that allows persons or entities to continue with activities or operations that were approved before the implementation. It is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases. |
| Hazard | A hazard is any source of potential damage, harm, or adverse health effects on someone. |
