Eye Protection

Uncorrected vision problems can cause accidents at the workplace. IGARD ensures that your employees are adequately corrected through pre-placement & routine eye examinations. In understanding your needs, IGARD also offer a mobile onsite eye screening service

Expert dispensary of INFIELD SAFETY 
Professional Eye Screening by IGARD

Full eye screening services for eyesight and visual health are available through IGARD in Singapore. This is specifically designed to identify employees who require prescription safety glasses for work. It may be arranged either to be conducted onsite at your workplace, or at the IGARD Eye Centre in Orchard Road. For your convenience, this service will be extended to a second centre in Choa Chu Kang in 2007. Email

Prescription safety glasses will fit into the most exact occupational requirement of an individual for its desired purpose (Yap et al, 2006). Under a recent collaboration with INFIELD (UK), IGARD in Singapore will be prescribing, dispensing and supplying a range of approved safety glasses that are fitted to a personal prescription by a dedicated group of optometrists.

Recent research from the National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore reported that most eye injuries are work related. The lack of awareness and compliance to safety had also been strongly attributed to the large number of ocular trauma cases seen at the hospital (Woo et al, 2006). Similar findings were also previously reported from researchers at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) (Voon et al, 2001). Both reports highlighted that the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), in particular approved safety glasses, is very important at the workplace.