Table 4 Career and occupations known to apply a colour vision standard

NORMAL COLOUR VISION

Commercial airline pilots, air traffic controllers, technical and maintenance staff at airports, aircraft pilots and engineers in the armed services, naval officers, submarine personnel, masters and watchkeepers on merchant marine vessels, customs and excise officers, train drivers, railway engineers and maintenance staff; workers in industrial colour quality assurance and colour matching, workers in fine art reproduction and photography, some electrical and electronic engineers

COLOUR VISION STANDARD APPLIED BUT ACCEPTS SOME WITH SLIGHT CVD

Fire fighters, police officers, some electrical and electronic engineers, some ranks in the armed services, hospital laboratory technicians, merchant seamen

OCCUPATIONS WHERE CVD IS A DISADVANTAGE AND COLOUR VISION STANDARD MAY APPLY

Art teaching, bacteriology, botany, chemistry, interior design, histopathology, horticulture, geology, diamond grading, metallurgy