Understanding Laser Accidents

Author : Ken Barat
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351627542

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Understanding Laser Accidents by Ken Barat Pdf

Understanding Laser Accidents provides a comprehensive reference addressing a wide a spectrum of laser accidents. The under-reporting and misreporting of laser accidents creates a blind spot for the laser management of institutions, laser users and laser safety officers. This book attempts to lift that veil. By giving details of why laser accidents occur, accident preparation, where to find laser accident information, elements of laser accident investigation, role of lessons learned and regulatory oversight of laser use. Chapters include a look at pilot illumination, fiber telecommunication, light show incidents and more as well as a detailed and honest review of three laser events that hold a mirror up to researchers and industrial laser users. • Provides a comprehensive, single source devoted to laser accidents • Covers elements of laser accident preparedness • Provides detailed analysis of some laser accidents that share common threads across the research and industrial environment • Contains information on where to find laser accident information • Extensive information on the illumination of pilots • Reviews laser regulatory oversight, non-beam hazards and laser safety tools

Author : Ken Barat
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351627559

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Understanding Laser Accidents by Ken Barat Pdf

Understanding Laser Accidents provides a comprehensive reference addressing a wide a spectrum of laser accidents. The under-reporting and misreporting of laser accidents creates a blind spot for the laser management of institutions, laser users and laser safety officers. This book attempts to lift that veil. By giving details of why laser accidents occur, accident preparation, where to find laser accident information, elements of laser accident investigation, role of lessons learned and regulatory oversight of laser use. Chapters include a look at pilot illumination, fiber telecommunication, light show incidents and more as well as a detailed and honest review of three laser events that hold a mirror up to researchers and industrial laser users. • Provides a comprehensive, single source devoted to laser accidents • Covers elements of laser accident preparedness • Provides detailed analysis of some laser accidents that share common threads across the research and industrial environment • Contains information on where to find laser accident information • Extensive information on the illumination of pilots • Reviews laser regulatory oversight, non-beam hazards and laser safety tools

Author : Ken Barat
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420015546

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Laser Safety Management by Ken Barat Pdf

An effective laser safety program can mean big savings in time, money, effort, and most importantly, human well-being. It can improve the quality of your research program, your organization's reputation, and ultimately, improve your bottom line. Based on the extensive experience of active Laser Safety Officer Kenneth Barat, Laser Safety Management provides practical tools for successfully implementing a laser safety program in any environment. The book defines the three elements of laser safety: users, the laser safety officer, and incidental personnel. It covers the types of laser injuries, standard operating procedures to ensure safety, tips and tools to avoid pitfalls, training, control measures, and personal protection equipment. The author explores the laser safety officer position and delineates the required elements of effective SOPs. He also discusses non-beam hazards, includes practical control examples and sample forms, and covers U.S. and European regulations and standards. Taking a pedagogical approach, the book covers not only how to avoid accidents, but how to investigate them if they do occur. It includes a sample safety program designed to evaluate your current safety plan and act as a roadmap for where you need to be and how to get there. Filled with common sense solutions for laser safety issues, the book makes setting up a safety program practically painless.

Author : Ken Barat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Laboratories
ISBN : 1523132051

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Laser Safety in the Lab by Ken Barat Pdf

There is no more challenging setting for laser use than a research environment. In almost every other setting the laser controls count on engineering controls, and human exposure is kept to a minimum. In research, however, the user often manipulates the optical layout and thereby places him or herself in peril, but this does not mean that accidents and injury are unavoidable. On the contrary, laser accidents can be avoided by following a number of simple approaches. Laser Safety in the Lab provides the laser user and laser safety officer with practical guidelines from housekeeping to eyewear to on-the-job training.

Author : Ken Barat
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420068559

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Laser Safety by Ken Barat Pdf

Lasers perform many unique functions in a plethora of applications, but there are many inherent risks with this continually burgeoning technology. Laser Safety: Tools and Training presents simple, effective ways for users in a variety of facilities to evaluate the hazards of any laser procedure and ensure they are following documented laser safety

Author : Ken Barat
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466581388

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Laser Safety by Ken Barat Pdf

New chapters and updates highlight the second edition of Laser Safety: Tools and Training. This text provides background information relating to lasers and laser safety, and examines the components of laser work and laser safety from a different perspective. Written by a working laser safety officer, the book considers ways to keep users, as well as those around them, safe. The author encourages readers to think beyond protective eyewear. As it relates to safety, he determines that if eyewear is required, then the laser system is not ideal. This book factors in optics, the vibration elements of the optical table, the power meter, and user training, elements that are not commonly considered in the context of laser safety. It presents ways for users to evaluate the hazards of any laser procedure and ensure that they are following documented laser safety standards. The material serves as a fundamental means or road map for laser users seeking to utilize the safest system possible. What’s New in the Second Edition: The second edition provides an inclusion of the Z136.8 Research Laser Standard, and offers updates and an explanation of eye exposure limits (MPE), presents new cases studies, and presents practical example images. It includes coverage of, laser lab design lessons, addresses user facility challenges and laser disposal. Presents case studies of real accidents, preventive measures, and templates for documenting potential laser risks and attendant safety measures Reviews factors often overlooked when one is setting up a laser lab Demonstrates how to investigate a laser incident This text which includes fundamental laser and laser safety information, as well as critical laser use information, is appropriate for both the novice and the seasoned professional.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Laser materials
ISBN : UOM:39015006423340

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Laser Induced Damage in Optical Materials by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laser Institute of America. Laser Safety Committee
Publisher : Laser Inst of America
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Eye
ISBN : 0912035064

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Laser Safety Guide by Laser Institute of America. Laser Safety Committee Pdf

Author : Department of the Army
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973921103

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Prevention and Medical Management of Laser Injuries (FM 8-50) by Department of the Army Pdf

This field manual, "Prevention and Medical Management of Laser Injuries," provides basic preventive, protective, and diagnostic information on laser injuries. The treatment procedures described herein are for use by combat medics, battalion aid station personnel, and other medical treatment facilities without an Ophthalmologist. Also, an evaluation matrix is provided for use by combat lifesavers and combat medics. Once an individual has been diagnosed as having a severe laser injury, causing loss of vision, he will be prepared for evacuation to a medical treatment facility where he can receive specialized care for his injury.

Author : Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers,American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery,International Biomedical Optics Society
Publisher : SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015041316368

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Proceedings of Laser and Noncoherent Ocular Effects by Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers,American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery,International Biomedical Optics Society Pdf

Author : Bruce E. Stuck,Michael Belkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017581880

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Proceedings of Laser-inflicted Eye Injuries by Bruce E. Stuck,Michael Belkin Pdf

Author : A. Roy Henderson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0412729407

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Guide to Laser Safety by A. Roy Henderson Pdf

This is a practical guide to the safe use of lasers in science, education, industry, telecommunications, entertainment and medicine. Henderson explains the nature of laser hazards and how to implement safety controls to international standards.

Author : Biswajeet Pradhan,Maher Ibrahim Sameen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030103743

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Laser Scanning Systems in Highway and Safety Assessment by Biswajeet Pradhan,Maher Ibrahim Sameen Pdf

This book aims to promote the core understanding of a proper modelling of road traffic accidents by deep learning methods using traffic information and road geometry delineated from laser scanning data. The first two chapters of the book introduce the reader to laser scanning technology with creative explanation and graphical illustrations, review and recent methods of extracting geometric road parameters. The next three chapters present different machine learning and statistical techniques applied to extract road geometry information from laser scanning data. Chapters 6 and 7 present methods for modelling roadside features and automatic road geometry identification in vector data. After that, this book goes on reviewing methods used for road traffic accident modelling including accident frequency and injury severity of the traffic accident (Chapter 8). Then, the next chapter explores the details of neural networks and their performance in predicting the traffic accidents along with a comparison with common data mining models. Chapter 10 presents a novel hybrid model combining extreme gradient boosting and deep neural networks for predicting injury severity of road traffic accidents. This chapter is followed by deep learning applications in modelling accident data using feed-forward, convolutional, recurrent neural network models (Chapter 11). The final chapter (Chapter 12) presents a procedure for modelling traffic accident with little data based on the concept of transfer learning. This book aims to help graduate students, professionals, decision makers, and road planners in developing better traffic accident prediction models using advanced neural networks.

Author : D. C. Winburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015009845697

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Practical Laser Safety by D. C. Winburn Pdf

Author : Travis S. Taylor
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351713740

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Introduction to Laser Science and Engineering by Travis S. Taylor Pdf

Introduction to Laser Science and Engineering provides a modern resource for a first course in lasers for both students and professionals. Starting from simple descriptions, this text builds upon them to give a detailed modern physical understanding of the concepts behind light, optical beams and lasers. The coverage starts with the nature of light and the principles of photon absorption and transmission, leading to the amplified and stimulated emission principals governing lasers. The specifics of lasers and their application, safe use and future prospects are then covered, with a wealth of illustrations to provide readers with a visual sense of optical and laser principles.