Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for the development of laser safety plans
- Laser sources are identified and confirmed in accordance with organisational policy and procedures
- Standards and legislation appropriate to lasers are identified and accessed
- Existing organisational records relevant to laser equipment are identified and accessed
- Equipment and resources required for the assessment of laser equipment are identified, acquired and prepared in accordance with organisational procedures
- Occupational health and safety (OH&S) requirements including those contained in organisation procedures, are applied throughout the operation
- Assess laser hazards
- Laser classifications are verified in accordance with legislative requirements, safety standards and organisational policy and procedures
- Maximum permissible exposures of continuous wave and repetitively pulsed lasers are evaluated in accordance with legislative requirements, safety standards and organisational policy and procedures
- Laser hazards are identified in accordance with legislative requirements, safety standards and organisational policy and procedures
- Laser hazard environments are assessed in accordance with legislative requirements, safety standards and organisational policy and procedures
- Develop laser safety plans
- Appropriate consultation with stakeholders is conducted in accordance with organisational policy and procedures
- Technical standards, organisational environmental requirements and laser exposure levels are identified and interpreted
- Laser safety plans are developed in accordance with legislative requirements and organisational policy and procedures
- Laser safety plans are forwarded to the relevant authority in accordance with organisational policy and procedures