Abstract
Despite the fact that the laser was only first developed in I960, it has found many uses in industry and other aspects of human endeavor. During this period the hazards, particularly to the eye, were revealed, and subsequently much biological research was performed to delineate these hazards. By 1968 some national safety guides, written mostly for voluntary compliance rather than governmental regulations, were being used in the field of laser safety. By 1973 a national consensus standard written by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI Z-136) had evolved which became the basis of the present Federal regulations of the Bureau of Radiological Health (BRH) and draft Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards for control of health hazards from laser radiation.
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Sliney, D., Wolbarsht, M. (1980). Introduction to Laser Safety. In: Safety with Lasers and Other Optical Sources. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3596-0_1
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