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Requirements for the safe use of lasers and laser systems 
Last reviewed: March 2011
Standards Generating Body: National Department of Health

The objective of these requirements is to provide reasonable and adequate guidance for the safe use of laser systems. A practical means for accomplishing this is to use the classification of laser systems (according to their relative hazards) to specify appropriate controls.
A Class 4 laser system (“High-Power” laser used in the events and entertainment industry) is a hazard to the eye or skin from direct beam and sometimes from a diffuse reflection and they also present a potential fire hazard. Class 4 laser systems may also produce laser generated air contaminants and hazardous plasma radiation.

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