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).

If the information concerning the requirements of the operating environment is not available, the risk can not be assessed properly and thus the appropriate protection measures can not be provided.

Based upon the technical standard on LASERs (IEC EN 60825-1) the manufacturer is obliged to provide this data either as a NOHD value or by directly declaring the minimum requirements of the environment in which the LASER equipment is used.

Repeat the procedure after having obtained this information. 

End of the procedure