EN 60825-1:2007

Safety of laser products - Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements

IEC 60825-1 is applicable to safety of laser products emitting laser radiation in the wavelength range 180 nm to 1 mm. A laser product may consist of a single laser with or without a separate power supply or may incorporate one or more lasers in a complex optical, electrical, or mechanical system. Typically, laser products are used for demonstration of physical and optical phenomena, materials processing, data reading and storage, transmission and display of information, etc. Such systems have found use in industry, business, entertainment, research, education, medicine and consumer products. Laser products that are sold to other manufacturers for use as components of any system for subsequent sale are not subject to IEC 60825-1, since the final product will itself be subject to this standard. However, if the laser system within the laser product is operable when removed from the equipment, the requirements of this Part 1 apply to the removable unit. Any laser product is exempt from all further requirements of this Part 1 if classification by the manufacturer of that product according to Clauses 3, 8 and 9 shows that the emission level does not exceed the AEL (accessible emission limit) of Class 1 under all conditions of operation, maintenance, service and failure. In addition to the hazards resulting from laser radiation, laser equipment may also give rise to other hazards such as fire and electric shock. This Part 1 describes the minimum requirements. Compliance with this Part 1 may not be sufficient to achieve the required level of product safety. Laser products must conform to the applicable performance and testing requirements of the applicable product safety standards. Where a laser system forms a part of equipment which is subject to another IEC product safety standard (e.g. for medical equipment (IEC 60601-2-22), IT equipment (IEC 60950), audio and video equipment (IEC 60065), equipment for use in hazardous atmospheres (IEC 60079), or electric toys (IEC 62115)), this Part 1 will apply in accordance with the provisions of IEC Guide 1042) for hazards resulting from laser radiation. If no product safety standard is applicable, then IEC 61010-1 applies. In previous editions, LEDs were included in the scope of IEC 60825-1, and they may be still included in other parts of the IEC 60825 series. However, with the development of lamp safety standards, optical radiation safety of LEDs in general can be more appropriately addressed by lamp safety standards. The removal of LEDs from the scope of this Part 1 does not preclude other standards from including LEDs whenever they refer to lasers. CIE S009 may be applied to determine the risk group class of an LED or product incorporating one or more LEDs. The MPE (maximum permissible exposure) values of this Part 1 were developed for laser radiation and do not apply to collateral radiation. However, if a concern exists that accessible collateral radiation might be hazardous, the laser MPE values may be applied to conservatively evaluate this potential hazard. The MPE values are not applicable to intentional human exposure to laser radiation for the purpose of medical or cosmetic/aesthetic treatment. The objectives of this part of IEC 60825 are the following: to introduce a system of classification of lasers and laser products according to their degree of optical radiation hazard in order to aid hazard evaluation and to aid the determination of user control measures; to establish requirements for the manufacturer to supply information so that proper precautions can be adopted; to ensure, through labels and instructions, adequate warning to individuals of hazards associated with accessible radiation from laser products; to reduce the possibility of injury by minimizing unnecessary accessible radiation and to give improved control of the laser radiation hazards through protective features.

Sicherheit von Lasereinrichtungen - Teil 1: Klassifizierung von Anlagen und Anforderungen

Sécurité des appareils à laser - Partie 1: Classification des matériels et exigences

Varnost laserskih izdelkov - 1. del: Klasifikacija opreme in zahteve (IEC 60825-1:2007)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 16-Oct-2007
• Withdrawal Date: 31-Aug-2010
• ICS: 13.110 - Safety of machinery
• ICS: 31.260 - Optoelectronics. Laser equipment
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 76 - Optical radiation safety and laser equipment
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 76 - IEC_TC_76
• Parallel Committee: IEC/TC 76 - IEC_TC_76
• Current Stage: 9960 - Withdrawal effective - Withdrawal
• Completion Date: 19-Jun-2019
• Directive: 1999/5/EC - Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity
• Directive: 2006/95/EC - Directive 2006/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits (codified version)
• Directive: 2014/35/EU - Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
• Directive: 2014/53/EU - Directive 2014/53/EU of The European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC
• Ref Project: SIST EN 60825-1:2009 - Safety of laser products - Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements (IEC 60825-1:2007)

Relations

• Replaces: EN 60825-1:1994/A2:2001 - Safety of laser products - Part 1: Equipment classification, requirements and user's guide
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaces: EN 60825-1:1994/A1:2002 - Safety of laser products - Part 1: Equipment classification, requirements and user's guide
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaces: EN 60825-1:1994 - Safety of laser products - Part 1: Equipment classification, requirements and user's guide
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaced By: EN 60825-1:2014 - Safety of laser products - Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.Varnost laserskih izdelkov - 1. del: Klasifikacija opreme in zahteve (IEC 60825-1:2007)Sicherheit von Lasereinrichtungen - Teil 1: Klassifizierung von Anlagen und Anforderungen (IEC 60825-1:2007)Sécurité des appareils à laser - Partie 1: Classification des matériels et exigences (CEI 60825-1:2007)Safety of laser products - Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements (IEC 60825-1:2007)31.260Optoelektronika, laserska opremaOptoelectronics. Laser equipment13.280Varstvo pred sevanjemRadiation protectionICS:Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z:EN 60825-1:2007SIST EN 60825-1:2009en,fr01-januar-2009SIST EN 60825-1:2009SLOVENSKI
STANDARDSIST EN 60825-1:1999/A2:2002SIST EN 60825-1:1999/A1:2004SIST EN 60825-1:19991DGRPHãþD

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 60825-1 NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM October 2007
CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
Central Secretariat: rue de Stassart 35, B - 1050 Brussels
© 2007 CENELEC -
All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.
Ref. No. EN 60825-1:2007 E
ICS 13.110 ; 31.260 Partially supersedes EN 60825-1:1994 + A1:2002 + A2:2001
English version
Safety of laser products -
Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements (IEC 60825-1:2007)
Sécurité des appareils à laser -
Partie 1: Classification des matériels
et exigences (CEI 60825-1:2007)
Sicherheit von Lasereinrichtungen -
Teil 1: Klassifizierung von Anlagen
und Anforderungen (IEC 60825-1:2007)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2007-09-01. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
– 2 – Foreword The text of document 76/338/CDV, future edition 2 of IEC 60825-1, prepared by IEC TC 76, Optical radiation safety and laser equipment, was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel Unique Acceptance Procedure and was approved by CENELEC as EN 60825-1 on 2007-09-01. This European Standard partially supersedes EN 60825-1:1994 (+ corrigendum February 1995) + A1:2002 + A2:2001 (+ corrigendum April 2004). The user’s guide has been removed from this part of the EN 60825 series and is now a separate document (Part 14). Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have been removed from the scope of this part of EN 60825, but may still be included in other parts. The following dates were fixed: – latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement
(dop)
2008-06-01 – latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn
(dow)
2010-09-01 Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC. __________ Endorsement notice The text of the International Standard IEC 60825-1:2007 was approved by CENELEC as a European Standard without any modification. In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated: IEC 60027-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60027-1:2006 (not modified). IEC 60065 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60065:2002 (modified). IEC 60079 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60079 series (partially modified). IEC 60079-0 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60079-0:2004 (not modified). IEC 60204-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60204-1:2006 (modified). IEC 60825-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60825-2:2004 (not modified). IEC 60825-4 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60825-4:2006 (not modified). IEC 60825-12 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60825-12:2004 (not modified). IEC 60950 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60950 series (modified). IEC 61040 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61040:1992 (not modified). IEC 61508 NOTE Harmonized in EN 61508 series (not modified). IEC 62115 NOTE Harmonized as EN 62115:2005 (modified). ISO 11146-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 11146-1:2005 (not modified). ISO 11553-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 11553-1:2005 (not modified). ISO 12100-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 12100-1:2003 (not modified). ISO 12100-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 12100-2:2003 (not modified). ISO 13694 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 13694:2000 (not modified). __________ SIST EN 60825-1:2009

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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications with their corresponding European publications
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE
When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year IEC 60050-845 1987 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) -
Chapter 845: Lighting – –
IEC 60601-2-22 – 1) Medical electrical equipment -
Part 2: Particular requirements for the safety of diagnostic and therapeutic laser equipment EN 60601-2-22 1996 2)
IEC 61010-1
– 1) Safety requirements for electrical
equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use -
Part 1: General requirements EN 61010-1 + corr. June
2001 3) 2002
1) Undated reference.
2) Valid edition at date of issue. EN 60601-2-22:1996 will be superseded by EN 60601-2-22:200X, which is based on IEC 60601-2--22:2007. 3) Valid edition at date of issue. SIST EN 60825-1:2009

IEC 60825-1Edition 2.0 2007-03INTERNATIONAL STANDARD NORME INTERNATIONALESafety of laser products –
Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements
Sécurité des appareils à laser –
Partie 1: Classification des matériels et exigences
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION COMMISSION ELECTROTECHNIQUE INTERNATIONALE XDICS 13.110; 31.260 PRICE CODECODE PRIXISBN 2-8318-9085-3GROUP SAFETY PUBLICATION PUBLICATION GROUPÉE DE SÉCURITÉSIST EN 60825-1:2009

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CONTENTS FOREWORD.5
1 Scope and object.7 2 Normative references.9 3 Terms and definitions.9 4 Engineering specifications.22 4.1 General remarks.22 4.2 Protective housing.22 4.3 Access panels and safety interlocks.22 4.4 Remote interlock connector.23 4.5 Manual reset.23 4.6 Key control.24 4.7 Laser radiation emission warning.24 4.8 Beam stop or attenuator.24 4.9 Controls.24 4.10 Viewing optics.24 4.11 Scanning safeguard.25 4.12 "Walk-in" access.25 4.13 Environmental conditions.25 4.14 Protection against other hazards.25 5 Labelling.26 5.1 General.26 5.2 Class 1 and Class 1M.28 5.3 Class 2 and Class 2M.29 5.4 Class 3R.30 5.5 Class 3B.30 5.6 Class 4.30 5.7 Aperture label.30 5.8 Radiation output and standards information.30 5.9 Labels for access panels.31 5.10 Warning for invisible laser radiation.32 5.11 Warning for visible laser radiation.32 6 Other informational requirements.32 6.1 Information for the user.32 6.2 Purchasing and servicing information.34 7 Additional requirements for specific laser products.34 7.1 Other parts of the standard series IEC 60825.34 7.2 Medical laser products.35 7.3 Laser processing machines.35 7.4 Electric toys.35 7.5 Consumer electronic products.35 8 Classification.35 8.1 Introduction.35 8.2 Classification responsibilities.36 8.3 Classification rules.36 SIST EN 60825-1:2009

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9 Determination of the accessible emission level.40 9.1 Tests.40 9.2 Measurement of laser radiation.41 9.3 Measurement geometry.51
Annex A (informative)
Maximum permissible exposure values.57 Annex B (informative)
Examples of calculations.64 Annex C (informative)
Description of the classes and potentially associated hazards.74 Annex D (informative)
Biophysical considerations.80 Annex E
(informative)
MPEs and AELs expressed as radiance.90 Annex F (informative)
Summary tables.94 Annex G (informative)
Overview of associated parts of IEC 60825.97
Bibliography.99
Figure 1 – Warning label – Hazard symbol.27 Figure 2 – Explanatory label.28 Figure 3 – Measurement set-up to limit angle of acceptance
by imaging the apparent source onto the plane of the field stop.53 Figure 4 – Measurement set-up to limit angle of acceptance by placing a circular aperture or a mask (serving as field stop) close to the apparent source.54 Figure 5 – Experimental set-up for the determination of the accessible emission (above) and the angular subtense of the apparent source (below) for condition 2 when an extended source is to be considered (i.e. not using the default, simplified evaluation).55 Figure B.1 – Flowchart guide for the classification of laser products from supplied output parameters.66 Figure B.2 – Flowchart guide for the classification of Class 1M and Class 2M laser products.
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