Abstract
Various aspects of a current state in the field of laser safety in Russia and abroad have been considered. A review of the main
 normative documents in the field of laser safety and laser dosimetry has been carried out. The necessity in audit of domestic
 system of laser safety for its modernization purpose has been caused first of all by a considerable expansion of laser products’
 scopes. Besides, a problem of counteraction by standard and legal way to so-called "laser hooliganism" which is expressed in
 unauthorized radiation of aircrafts’ pilots and vehicles’ drivers by laser bunches of powerful laser target indicators called in
 use as "laser pointers" is very actual now. Control methods related to safe application of the laser products intended for work
 on open spaces aren´t regulated in the existing system of laser safety, as well as there are no objective criteria for assessment
 of such products’ laser radiation danger degree to the health of human beings which have got to laser bunches’ distribution
 field. Respectively, there are considerable difficulties in justification of these or those legal sanctions application against "laser
 hooligans". Due to the beginning of development of Customs Union’s technical regulations on laser production safety it is necessary
 to carry out a modernization of existing state standard specifications (GOSTs) in a part of reflection at them a modern level of laser
 equipment development and accounting of Russia’s Federal Laws No. 184 and No. 52 requirements. A new system of standards
 on laser safety under a general name "SSBT. Lasers and Laser Setups (Systems). Laser Safety" has been offered. It is supposed to
 include in this system besides the upgraded GOST SSBT 12.1.040, some more documents in the rank of Russia’s national standards
 and rules on metrology. Compliance of design standards to the international and regional (European) standards, and also to
 national standards of the USA has been considered. The need of improvement related to methods of state regulation in the laser
 safety area has been justified. Overcoming of a situation of a legal collision in the body of law related to laser safety is offered by
 development of Customs Union’s laser production safety technical regulations harmonized with the Customs Union’s interstate
 sanitary and hygienic legal document ESGT – 2010 and the Russian sanitary standards with simultaneous restriction related to a
 standardization area of translated standards on laser safety based on the MEK standards of the IEC 60825 series that have been
 put into operation in 2009–2014. The scope of these standards has to be limited only to laser production intended for export.
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