I will graduate this spring as a Third Assistants Engineer. I am looking to work for Kirby or Edison Chouest. I know they both have physicals before hiring. Here’s the issue… I am MILDLY red green color blind, but can still pass the Coast Requirements using other tests/methods. Would this be a cause to not hire? Everything else physically is fine. Thanks for any input.
I heard it helps if you’re not blind. If you can’t see, how are you going to duck under all those low pipes and then the companies have to pay to fix your busted head!
I would think if you can pass a USCG vision test you would be ok with the company exam. Any company will require some sort of physical for that matter. But overall I think you are fine. I would not even bring it up unless it becomes an issue, and then I’d bring to light you pass he USCG lic physical standards…
Unless they have changed thing here at Chouest there is only a drug test and a physical with ability test. No eye test.
I had to take a vision test as well as a color vision test.
I took a color test at NOAA.
Ishihara.
When I got hired I did both vision and color tests. I thought the color was only for deck personnel though? Could be wrong.
Get the ishihara app.
I didn’t have a problem with that. I had a problem with the goofy depth perception test! The one where you stare at a row of circles and pick the one that looks closest. That was wild.
Anyone do that one?
I thought bridge officers were the only one for a color vision test?
ECO has the Ishihara test, but they also have the Farnsworth Lantern test also.
[QUOTE=catherder;106037]I didn’t have a problem with that. I had a problem with the goofy depth perception test! The one where you stare at a row of circles and pick the one that looks closest. That was wild.
Anyone do that one?[/QUOTE]
I did that one way back as part of my pre-Academy nomination physical. Because the Air Force Academy was one of my choices, and the closest government facility to where I lived at the time was an AFB, I was processed with a flight physical. The medical scenes in “The Right Stuff” sure reminded me of it.
Oh no, engineers get one too. We have to be able to discern wiring colors just for one example.
Was Nurse Murch there?
The actress who played her was the wonderful comedienne and singer Jane Dormacker who was later killed in a traffic chopper accident in NY.
[QUOTE=catherder;106037]I didn’t have a problem with that. I had a problem with the goofy depth perception test! The one where you stare at a row of circles and pick the one that looks closest. That was wild.
Anyone do that one?[/QUOTE]
YES! I have done the very same depth perception test for a job on the Great Lakes, years ago…Just a relief wiper gig, but it was an intense physical, strength test, climb a ladder 10 feet, tread-mill like a hamster, vision test including the color and depth perception tests, drug test, background check conducted by a 3rd party credit report type agency…the whole works, again, just for a relief wiper gig!
[QUOTE=skipjackmac;106002]Unless they have changed thing here at Chouest there is only a drug test and a physical with ability test. No eye test.[/QUOTE]
What does the physical and “ability test” @ ECO consist of?