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Comply with Health & Safety regulations by providing eye tests for your employees

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Key figures Creation year : 1989 Companeo Agreed Supplier since : November 2006

Geographical coverage UK national coverage.

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Main benefits: Health & Safety legislation requires that employers provide mandatory eye tests for all employees operating visual display screens. Eyecare Vouchers schemes are the most simple and cost effective way to meet these regulations. Eyecare Vouchers are free of NI contributions for you and your workforce and VAT is not payable on their purchase.

yecare Vouchers are the best way to ensure your organisation meets the requirements laid down in the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992. The law introduced a wide range of measures to improve the conditions for all employees who work with a microfiche or visual display screen (VDU), including secretaries working on word processors, accounts or personnel staff performing data input, journalists, telesales staff, librarians, graphic designers and even financial dealers. And you, the employer, are legally obliged to pay for all eye tests and any special VDU corrective spectacles prescribed as a result of those eye tests.

How Eyecare Vouchers operate

Stage 1
You provide each employee that qualifies, with an Eye Examination Voucher. You could put this in each new employee's "welcome pack". The examination is carried out in accordance with the 1989 Opticians' Act as prescribed by law. Employees simply pass over the voucher to the optician before the examination.

Stage 2
After the Eye Examination, the Optometrist/OMP provides a signed and stamped two-part VDU certification of recommendation. The certificate provides a record that an employee has had an eye examination, whether VDU corrective spectacles are required and the date recommended for the next examination.

Stage 3
If the Optometrist/OMP recommends VDU corrective spectacles, the law states you are liable for the cost. Simply give the employee a Spectacle Voucher to cover the cost of the required spectacles.

Why choose
Eyecare Vouchers?

Better staff relations
Eyecare Vouchers are a uniquely tangible way to demonstrate your organisation's compliance with the law, and to show that your organisation is a caring one, which can lead to improved employee loyalty and motivation.

Promotes staff choice
Eyecare Vouchers allow your employees to choose the most convenient place to have their eye tests.

Reduces cost
Over 6,000 leading organisations throughout the UK have implemented Eyecare Vouchers, yet it's just as easy and cost-effective for smaller companies.

PAYE and NI exemption
Furthermore, Eyecare Vouchers are exempt from PAYE liability and free of National Insurance for both employers and employees, and the employer's costs are deductible for Corporation Tax purposes. In addition, VAT is not payable on the purchase of Eyecare Vouchers.

As an employer you must publicise the Display Screen Regulations to your staff, and provide, on request:

A full eye examination and eyesight test by a qualified Optometrist/Ophthalmic medical Practitioner (OMP) - vision screening does not satisfy the conditions of the law.

Follow-up eye tests at regular intervals as recommended by the optician. Follow-up tests are for all employees, not just those with identified problems.

Additional interim eye test at any time if an employee requests it, or experiences difficulty with their sight.

Eye tests for new employees.

VDU corrective spectacles for employees who need them.

The Eyecare Vouchers is a scheme for both large and small businesses where everyone sees the benefit

Eyecare Vouchers are accepted by over 96% of the Optometrists/OMPs in the UK (including Boots Opticians, Dollond & Aitchison and most major optical chains), leaving your employees plenty of choice.

Accor Services Eyecare Vouchers scheme is an easy way to ensure our compliance with H&SE directives. The first class service from the Eyecare Vouchers team makes the whole process easy for both our business and our employees.

Paul Ackland-Snow - Menzies Aviation

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Accor Services

Accor Services pioneered the Childcare voucher concept in 1989. They also offer other employee benefit schemes such as Eyecare vouchers.

Activity Accor Services offers a user-friendly service for employers, employees and childcare providers that suits organisations of all sizes across a range of sectors.

Main clients HM Revenue & Customs, Shell, Royal Mail, NHS Trusts, Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Comply with Health & Safety regulations by providing eye tests for your employees

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