Dr. Swifts excellent comments on the issue of color deficiency in workers are very pertinent.    And unlike some colors on fabrics,
the "colors" on the fabric of such issues does not seem to fade.   

See JOEM 2000-2001

Editorial 

Should Color Vision Screening Yield a Black or White Answer?

Joyce, Patrick C.

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 42(7):679-682, July 2000.

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Comment
 
. 2001 Mar;43(3):197.
 doi: 10.1097/00043764-200103000-00001.

Should color vision screening yield a black or white answer?

K Auerbach, B A Barron
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Screening for Color Vision Testing Should be Black or White, but Screening Should Not Constitute the Final Answer

Hartenbaum, Natalie P.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 43(3):197-198, March 2001.
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Screening for Color Vision Testing Should be Black or White, but Screening Should Not Constitute the Final Answer

Joyce, Patrick C.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 43(3):198, March 2001.
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Book Reviews

Color Vision in the Occupational Setting: Analysis and Testing

Lesser, Robert L. MD

Editor(s): Borak, Jonathan MD

Author Information
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 51(4):p 510, April 2009. | DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318

Color Vision in the Occupational Setting: Analysis and Testing

Bernard Blais. 85 pp, 2008. Richmond Products. ISBN: 978-0-9718598-5-2. Available at: https://webportal.acoem.org/Purchase/SearchCatalog.aspx.

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Full disclosure- yeah, that was me.  I must have been a teen at the time ":)


While I absolutely am in favor of tests that can help a person define their health status and identify problems, I favor functional testing rather than screening testing in this instance- though old habits are hard to change and such screening is often requested by employers or is part of a standard package of testing.

Karl Auerbach MD
Ticonderoga, NY

My opinions, nothing more...


On Monday, October 28, 2024 at 02:44:16 PM EDT, Swift, Melanie D., M.D., M.P.H. via MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net> wrote:


Hi Melissa,

I’m sharing a link to the MCOH-EH archives where this issue has previously been discussed extensively: https://32290571.isolation.zscaler.com/profile/9028e808-d25a-465c-b3c4-eb6dd43f81f5/zia-session/?controls_id=74571eee-65e0-495e-90f9-c2358f8aad11&region=cle&tenant=9bdf164cfefd&user=4321d50d9ebffaf0704f98f4b44d4c59dbf2df1c45b99c8e9e4c6234b4018a52&original_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmylist.net%2Fhtdig%2Fmcoh-eh%2F2014-May%2F000032.html&key=sh-1&hmac=ec8c42ebc38db1e1b3ec23d30a995659bb27e34b0acbfdd7c5ef538e88b77827

 

 

Hope this helps,

 

Melanie

 

From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net> On Behalf Of Griffin, Melissa (BHS)
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2024 12:38 PM
To: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [MCOH-EH] Color Deficiency

 

Are your facilities completing a color deficiency screening (Ishihara) on patient facing candidates?

If they have some degree of deficiency what are the next steps? 

 

Thanks

 

 

Melissa Griffin, BSN, RN

Manager

Employee Health Services

Baptist Health

Working Remote

Address provided upon request

 

1-833-743-0528 Office

502.259.4628 Direct

Melissa.griffin3@bhsi.com

BaptistHealth.com

 

 

 

 

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