As a follow up to John's reply below: If you are considering taking some kind of class or hiring a consultant for laser safety; you may want to consider buying a copy of the latest version of EN 60825-1. The standard is very thorough, providing methods to determine the class of laser devices either by measurement or calculation. It also has tables of requirements for labeling, manual information, interlocking...requirements for different classes of lasers.
The good thing is, the CDRH has issued Laser Notice 50 which essentially states that you can use EN 60825-1 to meet the technical aspects (laser classification, labeling...) of the CDRH requirements. This greatly simplifies the technical aspects of laser compliance. It also means that your copy of EN 60825 will help you with foreign and US laser safety compliance. Chris Maxwell | Design Engineer - Optical Division email [email protected] | dir +1 315 266 5128 | fax +1 315 797 8024 NetTest | 6 Rhoads Drive, Utica, NY 13502 | USA web www.nettest.com | tel +1 315 797 4449 | > -----Original Message----- > From: John Juhasz [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 12:57 PM > To: 'Davis, Mike'; Emc-Pstc (E-mail) > Subject: RE: Two Questions concerning the subject of Laser Safety > > > Mike, > > Go to the following link of the CDRH (Center for Devices and Radiological > Health). They're the ones to whom the > reports will be sent. There are further links to information that will be > very useful to you and should answer most > of the questions you posed below. > > http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/radhlth/index.html > > Simply put, at this moment in the US LEDs are not regulated. But the CDRH > will be aligning the regs with Europe (EN 60825) where > verification that the LEDs are safe is required. > > GE Interlogix > > John A. Juhasz > > Fiber Options Div. > Bohemia, NY > > > > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
