Procedure for the assessment of LASER Systems

The LASER system falls into class 3B or 4 and the beam is free (the LASER beam is mounted on a manually steerable handpiece; the manufacturer did not embed it into a housing; e.g. hand-held LASER handpieces as in an aesthetic or hospital setting, industrial LASERs that require the presence of the operator in the immediate proximity of the free beam).

Some requirements related to the environment where the LASER is used shall be verified, in addition to those concerning the equipment.

In the first place, an enclosed space to be used as a LASER controlled area shall be identified; at each entrance of this area the appropriate LASER hazard warning signs shall be displayed. The LASER controlled area can be the room where the apparatus is used or the housing that has been created around the apparatus in order to confine the emitted radiation.

What further information is available?

The manufacturer indicates in the manual the minimum requirements of the operating environment.

None of the above information is known.