18 AAC 85.720 - Precautions for outdoor use of lasers

(a) All individuals lacking adequate protective clothing and eyewear, and who are not forewarned, shall be excluded from the beam path of a laser used outdoors to a distance where the power or energy density is within a permissible level.

(b) The tracking of all occupied vehicles, aircraft and watercraft within a calculated hazardous distance is prohibited if the occupants are not adequately protected and forewarned. The tracking of humans within a calculated hazardous distance is prohibited if such individuals are not adequately protected and forewarned.

(c) Operation of a laser in rain, snow, fog, or dust shall be done with extreme caution.

(d) The beam path of a laser used outdoors shall be cleared of all objects capable of producing potentially hazardous reflections unless individuals capable of being exposed to potentially hazardous radiation are adequately protected and forewarned.

Notes

18 AAC 85.720

Eff. 9/16/71, Register 39

Authority:AS 46.03.020

AS 46.03.260