Open AccessLasers and Safety. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Part 3
Author(s) -
Пальцев,
Yuriy Paltsev,
Кибовский,
V. Kibovskiy,
Рахманов,
Boris Rakhmanov,
Девисилов,
Владимир Девисилов
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bezopasnostʹ v tehnosfere
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1998-071X
DOI - 10.12737/6638
Subject(s) - laser , laser safety , engineering , computer science , computer security , business , risk analysis (engineering) , optics , physics
Various aspects of a current state in the field of laser safety in Russia and abroad have been considered. A review of the main
normative documents in the field of laser safety and laser dosimetry has been carried out. The necessity in audit of domestic
system of laser safety for its modernization purpose has been caused first of all by a considerable expansion of laser products’
scopes. Besides, a problem of counteraction by standard and legal way to so-called "laser hooliganism" which is expressed in
unauthorized radiation of aircrafts’ pilots and vehicles’ drivers by laser bunches of powerful laser target indicators called in
use as "laser pointers" is very actual now. Control methods related to safe application of the laser products intended for work
on open spaces aren´t regulated in the existing system of laser safety, as well as there are no objective criteria for assessment
of such products’ laser radiation danger degree to the health of human beings which have got to laser bunches’ distribution
field. Respectively, there are considerable difficulties in justification of these or those legal sanctions application against "laser
hooligans". Due to the beginning of development of Customs Union’s technical regulations on laser production safety it is necessary
to carry out a modernization of existing state standard specifications (GOSTs) in a part of reflection at them a modern level of laser
equipment development and accounting of Russia’s Federal Laws No. 184 and No. 52 requirements. A new system of standards
on laser safety under a general name "SSBT. Lasers and Laser Setups (Systems). Laser Safety" has been offered. It is supposed to
include in this system besides the upgraded GOST SSBT 12.1.040, some more documents in the rank of Russia’s national standards
and rules on metrology. Compliance of design standards to the international and regional (European) standards, and also to
national standards of the USA has been considered. The need of improvement related to methods of state regulation in the laser
safety area has been justified. Overcoming of a situation of a legal collision in the body of law related to laser safety is offered by
development of Customs Union’s laser production safety technical regulations harmonized with the Customs Union’s interstate
sanitary and hygienic legal document ESGT – 2010 and the Russian sanitary standards with simultaneous restriction related to a
standardization area of translated standards on laser safety based on the MEK standards of the IEC 60825 series that have been
put into operation in 2009–2014. The scope of these standards has to be limited only to laser production intended for export.