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Please note that the organizer is responsible for keeping to all specified protective measures. If a laser gets
out of control, the event may need to be cancelled immediately.
If the organiser does not fulfill his safety duties, he is reliable by civil law for any damages occured, e.g.:
Pay the treatment costs of the damaged person.
Pay a smart money to the damaged person.
Economic damage caused can be demanded from the operator of the laser product.
Please note:
EUROLITE cannot be made liable for damages caused by incorrect installations and unskilled
operation!
Protective measures for a safe operation
For producing and operating with laser radiation the following regulation is binding: DIN EN 60825-1 "Safety
of laser products", DIN 56912 "Showlaser und Showlaseranlagen", Berufsgenossenschaftliche Vorschrift
Laserstrahlung BGV B2, Merkblatt "Lasergeräte in Diskotheken und bei Show-Veranstaltungen", Merkblatt
"Disco-Laser", all governmental regulation and all generally binding rules of technology.
The following are excerpts from the regulation mentioned above. The information basis corresponds with the
date of printing. When operating a laser product in public or industrial areas, a series of safety instructions
have to be followed that this manual can only give in part. The operator must therefore inform himself on the
latest safety instructions and consider them.
Safety shutdown
Showlasers must provide a safety shutdown enabling to interrupt the laser radiation at any time by force.
Mechanical construction
The showlaser must be protected against adjustments, rotations and unintended movements.
The showlaser must be installed in a way that the beam cannot emitted in an undesired way.
The optical components must be firmly fixed at the wall etc. All holding elements must also be firmly fixed.
Laser radiation must only extend as far as necessary for the show. The beam must be limited by a diffuse
surface, so that dangers due to indirect or diffuse reflections are minimized.
Control units
The control units of a showlasers must lie outside the showlaser area and the complete showlaser area must
be controllable from this point.
The laser product must only be accessible by authorized persons.
The showlaser must never be operated unattended!
During a show, the laser product must never be repaired or adjusted in a way that the laserbeam is
corrected.
Outside the laser show, the beam must be interrupted closed to the laser or be shut off.
Operating staff
The laser-light-show must only be carried out by a trained person. This person must control the laserbeam
during the show and immediately switch off the device or interrupt the laser beam in case of failure of the
device, unsecure operational conditions or unrest in the audience.
The operator has to make sure that hired persons operating laser products of the classification 2 to 4 are
trained in their behaviour.
For showlasers, the operator has to instruct the hired persons on how to keep the accessible radiation as low
as possible. The hired persons have to carry out these instructions.
