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    The Safety Archives contains a listing of articles, papers and links relevant to professional laser safety issues.

• A Risk Assessment Methodology For The use of Lasers in the Entertainment Industry - John O'Hagen of the National Radiological Protection Board in the UK has contributed his PhD thesis on laser safety as a series of PDF files.

• Laser Safety Practices:  A simplified discussion of  the basics of proper laser safety practices with diagrams illustrating how to implement them.

• Safe Audience Scanning:  This article, by By William Benner, Jr. Chair, ILDA Technical Committee, originally appeared in a condensed form in the Fall 1997 edition of The Laserist. The version that appears here, with the permission of the author, is the full 4000 word edition.

• An Electronic Approach to Safer Scanning: To improve the safety of laser shows, especially in jurisdictions where audience scanning is permitted, it is desirable to monitor the behavior of the scanners electronically.  If a malfunction is detected, then the system can be shut down.  This paper covers the theoretical considerations of such systems.
  

• International Laser Safety Seminar - November 8, 1998:  Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A copy of the handout provided to participants at the seminar.

Off-site Safety Information

• The international laser safety standard, IEC-825, is the overall document on which most countries base their laser safety standards.  If you operate in a country with few or no regulations, it is wise to follow the standards set forth in this document.

• IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission): - Home page

• Laser Light Show Safety: Who's Responsible?:  PDF format booklet from the CDRH (a division of the United States Food and Drug Administration) with general information about US regulations and responsibility.

• User Guide for Directed Bright Light Operations in Airspace:  The proposed Canadian regulations for the use of lasers in outdoor shows and displays - For the latest copy of this information, contact "Maurstad, Jim" <MAURSTJ @ tc.gc.ca>

• Available in short form as a PDF document User Guide .pdf, or
• As a .ZIP file with the notification forms included.

• Wilson Industries Inc, a supplier of industrial laser safety equipment, has a document containing common Laser Safety Formulas that may be useful to you.  Go to the linked page and look for the Common Safety Formulas link on the left.
  
  
• Laser Safety:  A section on laser safety from the Pangolin Laser Show Resources Guide.