Laws, Regulations, Standards for Lasers

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Laws, Regulations

EU Directive 2006/25/EG
Directive on the protection of workers against artificial optical radiation (19th individual Directive within Directive 89/391/EWG)

LZH.de
The German Laser Centre Hannover offers a database concerning laser safety on it's homepage. Listed are e.g. types and amounts of generated combustion products at laser cutting (German and English).

Standards


Regulations, Rules from German Berufsgenossenschaften

The links from the German statutory accident insurance (Berufsgenossenschaft) lead to a database-search interface. Enter the required identification or title. You can then view or download the document in pdf-format.

BGV B2
Laser radiation (formerly VBG 93)
BGI 832
Working with laser equipment, application of regulation "Laser Radiation" (BGV B2) on laser classes and MZB-values (DIN EN 60825-1 (VDE 0837 Teil 1):2001-11)

Last updated by Klaus Kuhl, 1.6.2006