About Us
We were raised on the lab floor — not behind a counter
On Site Optical is the continuation of a family story that began with a wholesale optical manufacturing company, Safe Lite Optical, and a father who kept being first: first to build an optical retail chain with a national drugstore, First private optical partner to supply the VA—manufacturing prescription lenses and building fully staffed outpatient clinics directly within VA hospitals, to provide our Veterans with eyewear they can be proud to wear, consistently for over two plus decades
Recognition
"Profiles of excellence" — as featured in Jacksonville, Crown of the Coast
Featured repeatedly in the Jacksonville Business Journal as a leading woman-owned optical manufacturer, and awarded over $80 million in VA contracting.
Company Story
Four decades of making glasses, one purpose
For more than forty years our family lab produced prescription eyewear at scale — approximately 500 to 1,000 pairs a day — for clinics, agencies and retailers across the Southeast. That volume teaches you something a showroom never can: how a lens behaves, why a frame fails, and where quality quietly slips away.
We've served the VA throughout the Southeast in outpatient clinics and hospitals, the USPS, the Navy, corporations such as WalMart, city municipalities — currently the City of Gainesville and Gainesville Regional Utilities — private doctors and individuals. We've also supported communities experiencing homelessness with eyewear necessary for daily function, hoping to improve a difficult and, we hope, temporary situation.
Our success today traces back to our parents — particularly our dad, whose instinct for being first opened doors the whole industry later walked through. On Site Optical carries that forward with the same rigor and a far more personal reach.
Vision Benefits 4 All
Making eyewear reachable
Alongside the lab, our family built Vision Benefits 4 All — Alongside the lab, our family built Vision Benefits 4 All to bridge the gap in eye care—making prescription glasses accessible for local workers, independent teams, and neighbors who lack coverage. That same intent still shapes On Site Optical: sensible programs for employers, and eyewear for neighbors in need, including communities experiencing homelessness.
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Our Mission
To put precisely made, properly fitted prescription eyewear on every person who needs it to work safely — wherever that work happens, and without making them come to us.
Our Vision
An optical experience that feels personal at any scale: manufacturing-grade accuracy, mobile convenience, and a local optician who knows your name.
Core Values
What we refuse to compromise on
Craft
Lab-level understanding of every lens, curve and coating we specify.
Protection
Compliance is the floor, not the goal. Fit and clarity are the goal.
Relationship
Long partnerships with agencies, employers and local opticians alike.
Compassion
Eyewear for neighbors experiencing homelessness—restoring their vision needed to live independently
Precision
Measurements taken properly the first time — the source of most remakes.
Innovation
Virtual try-on and mobile dispensing built on traditional optical rigor.
Company Timeline
A line you can trace back fifty years
1970s
A first handshake
Our father signed Jack Eckerd of Eckerd Drug Stores, launching the first optical retail store chain — a photograph of that handshake still hangs in the family.
1980s
Safe Lite Optical
The family wholesale lab hits full stride, producing roughly 500–1,000 pairs of prescription glasses every single day.
1990s
Serving veterans
First private optical partner to supply the VA—manufacturing prescription lenses and building fully staffed outpatient clinics directly within VA hospitals, to provide our Veterans with eyewear they can be proud to wear, consistently for over two plus decades.
2000s
$80 million, in house
Father and daughters are awarded over $80 million in VA contracting, largely across VISN 6 in the Southeast — every pair fulfilled by our own team.
2010s
Recognition
Featured in 'Jacksonville, Crown of the Coast' as a profile of excellence and repeatedly in the Jacksonville Business Journal as a leading woman-owned manufacturer.
2000s–2010s
Vision Benefits 4 All
Alongside the lab, our family built Vision Benefits 4 All to bridge the gap in eye care—making prescription glasses accessible for local workers, independent teams, and neighbors who lack coverage.
2018
A new chapter
Safe Lite Optical is sold. The knowledge, relationships and standards stay with us — and become On Site Optical.
Today
On Site Optical
Virtual try-on, a community optician network, and on-site fittings for qualifying customers within our service area from Orlando to Savannah.
Meet Our Team
Small team. Deep bench.
You will not be handed between departments. The people who scope your program are the people who take your measurements, verify your lenses and answer the phone six months later.
Sisters at the helm — a woman-owned business recognized among northeast Florida's top manufacturers.
Manufacturing background
Decades inside a high-volume Rx lab.
Recognized nationally
Published profiles of excellence and business journal features.
Always teaching
We explain the why behind every lens recommendation.
Quality Standards
What "best" actually means to us
Younger Optics lenses
Most of our lenses come from the world's largest independent lens manufacturer — consistent optics, batch after batch.
Major safety frames
ArmouRx, Hilco, Hudson, ArtCraft and WileyX, selected for the hazard profile of the job, not the price sheet.
Verified before delivery
Power, axis, seg height and impact rating checked against your prescription and safety policy.