Is a medical fail the end?

[Layaboutlarry]

Hi,
Im hoping someone in this helpful site can help me, I was wondering if you fail tour medical with one toc, would it be a fail accross the board abd therefore end with you being blacklisted (so to speak)?
The reason I ask this is my brother had gone for two different interviews with bus companies and fail the medical due to his vision at one bus company but passed at another but just wondered whether it would be different.

Thanks in advance

 

[alex17595]

I think it depends on what you fail, failing a D+A would be much worse.

 

[TDK]

Hi,
Im hoping someone in this helpful site can help me, I was wondering if you fail tour medical with one toc, would it be a fail accross the board abd therefore end with you being blacklisted (so to speak)?
The reason I ask this is my brother had gone for two different interviews with bus companies and fail the medical due to his vision at one bus company but passed at another but just wondered whether it would be different.

Thanks in advance

If it is vision you are concerned about a trip to the opticians prior to applying and asking them to do the Railway Group Standards eye test would clear that one up.

 

[455driver]

Tell your friend to google "ishihara test" and see (sic) how well they do, somebody posted a link on here and I got every one right, it is supposed to be effected by your screen settings but I got them all correct on my laptop (which is all over the place) and my desktop which is somewhat closer to normal.

Here it is-
http://colorvisiontesting.com/ishihara.htm

 

[156441]

To add to the above. The RGS standard for eyesight should your optician not know is....

Visual acuity
a) distance vision at least 6/9 in the better eye and 6/12 in the other eye, with spectacles or contact lenses if worn
b) if a person is dependent on contact lenses to meet these requirements, spectacles of an equivalent prescription shall be carried when on or near the line
c) no pathological condition of the eyes likely to cause visual impairment should be present
d) the use of tinted or photochromic prescription spectacles is permitted, subject to the requirements of sub-paragraph (c).

 

[Mojo]

Do they still do the Ishihara test? When I had my last medical about 15 months ago it had been replaced with a more modern test involving boxes flying around on a computer screen. Might vary by company as my first medical for a Toc did have one...

 

[benno79]

I was worried whether my sight met the requirements but I took the rgs standard paperwork with me to the opticians and I was fine. I also did both the isihara test and the "boxes" test and there were no problems.
I also got my current employer to pay for the test as they are required to do so because I use a vdu.
If you going to go through the arduous process of becoming a driver I can't think of anything worse than failing at the final hurdle. Getting the test done really put my mind at rest and then you know for sure one way or another.

 

[BestWestern]

To add to the above. The RGS standard for eyesight should your optician not know is....

Visual acuity
a) distance vision at least 6/9 in the better eye and 6/12 in the other eye, with spectacles or contact lenses if worn
b) if a person is dependent on contact lenses to meet these requirements, spectacles of an equivalent prescription shall be carried when on or near the line
c) no pathological condition of the eyes likely to cause visual impairment should be present
d) the use of tinted or photochromic prescription spectacles is permitted, subject to the requirements of sub-paragraph (c).

Is there not a requirement for a standard of uncorrected vision also, i.e. with lenses/specs off if you wear them?

 

[benno79]

yes it's

Where spectacles or contact lenses are used, uncorrected visual acuity shall be at least 3/60 in each eye.

 

[455driver]

Do they still do the Ishihara test?

I did it in January.

 

[BestWestern]

yes it's

Where spectacles or contact lenses are used, uncorrected visual acuity shall be at least 3/60 in each eye.

Thought so, thanks!

 

[alex17595]

Do they still do the Ishihara test? When I had my last medical about 15 months ago it had been replaced with a more modern test involving boxes flying around on a computer screen. Might vary by company as my first medical for a Toc did have one...

Is that the thing with circles on? I did that for my medical in the beginning of August.

 

[158Driver]

Just as a side question, does bupa give a report back to the TOC or only if the medical is failed?

 

[parsons16]

Not sure if this is any help to you but I failed a medical in 2008 but re-applied again last year as my condition had improved and got the job this year, so I suppose it depends what the condition is you have and how much the TOC considers it a problem.

 

[Belgini]

Anybody know what the psychological phase entails? This has now just been brought in.