Laser Safety Program

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Manual organization
3. Safety precautions for class  and  lasers
4. Class  (eye and specular reflection hazard)
5. Class  (fire, eye and skin hazard, diffuse reflection hazard)
6. Laser inventory form
7. Section  : laser safety program
8. Individual laser users
9. Principal investigators
10. Laser safety committee (lsc)
11. Laser safety officer (lso)
12. Environmental health and safety (eh&s)
13. Purchasing
14. Medical surveillance
15. Section : classification and control
16. Hazard classification
17. The four laser hazard classes, along with their subdivisions, are:
18. Laser hazard classes
19. Maximum permissible exposure
20. Nominal hazard zone (nhz)
21. Laser hazard control measures
22. Control measures for the laser hazard classes
23. Engineering controls
24. Administrative controls
25. Developmental guidelines for a laser safety procedure
26. Beam alignment
27. Non-beam hazard considerations
28. Training
29. Authorized operating personnel list
30. Service personnel training
31. Indoor laser controlled area
32. Warning signs and labels
33. Personal protective equipment
34. Factors common to laser accidents
35. Section : non-beam hazards
36. Electrical
37. General guidelines on electrical safety
38. Capacitors
39. Explosion
40. Fire
41. Optical radiation (other than laser beam)
42. Ionizing radiation
43. Gas safety
44. Dyes and solutions
45. Precautions for handling dyes/solvents
46. Additional precautions for dye work with moderate (“m”) controls
47. Additional precautions for dye work with strict (“s”) controls
48. Other considerations