• Updates to the RLI State Laser Safety Contacts Database
• LIA Cancels Houston ILSC Event
• IEC TC 76 2021 Plenary Meeting Is Going Virtual
• JLA Publishes Article by RLI Consultants
• 2021 Industrial Laser Safety Course Schedule
• Product Focus: Laser Sentry Entryway Control System
• Featured Consulting Service: Laser Enclosure Design & Manufacturing

Updates to the RLI State Laser Safety Contacts Database

In 1999, RLI founder Jim Rockwell published a paper for the International Laser Safety Conference titled "State and Local Government Laser Safety Requirements". The paper was very well received, and as a result, RLI published the first database of State Laser Safety Contacts on the RLI website.

Over the last 20 years, RLI has continued to update this information as more states have added regulations, mostly for registration and to reference ANSI standards, and on the medical side for plume evacuation.

The RLI team updated the information during COVID with the intent to present a paper at the 2021 ILSC®, marking the 20th anniversary of Jim's original paper. Unfortunately, the conference has now been postponed until the Feb. 2022, and we hope to be able to present it in Portland then.

For more information about state laser safety contacts and regulations, please contact an RLI representative via email or call us at (800) 94-LASER.

LIA Cancels Houston ILSC Event

Due to multiple ongoing challenges posed by the pandemic, the LIA has decided to cancel the ILSC event scheduled for Houston, TX in March of 2022.

Members of the International Advisory Board and the Program Committee will be meeting during the summer of 2022 to launch the planning process for ILSC 2023 in Portland, OR, currently scheduled for Monday, February 27 - Thursday, March 2, 2023.

IEC TC 76 2021 Plenary Meeting Held Virtually

The 2021 Plenary Meeting of TC 76 was held virtually on Friday November 12, 2021 via Zoom. Working Group and Joint Working Group meetings were scheduled during the week of, and the week prior to the Plenary for the majority of the groups.

The purpose of TC 76 is to prepare international standards for equipment (including systems) incorporating lasers (and light emitting diodes) or intended only for use with lasers, including those factors introduced by the use of lasers which are needed to characterize equipment and/or which are essential to safe use.

JLA Publishes Article by RLI Consultants

The Journal of Laser Applications has acceoted an article by RLI consultants Mary and Sheldon Zimmerman for publication. The article, "Performance Numbers vs. Safety Numbers for Laser Hazard Evaluations", discusses the laser parameters required by a laser professional to properly evaluate hazard conditions. An abstract of the article can be found at https://lia.scitation.org/doi/10.2351/7.0000441

The Journal of Laser Applications is the official journal of the Laser Institute of America and serves as the major international forum for exchanging ideas and information in disciplines that apply laser technology.

Developed and taught by the leading experts in the field, RLI training courses have been recognized as the best in the industry.

RLI also offers Online Industrial Laser Safety Courses and On-site Industrial Laser Safety Officer Courses that can be held at your facility.

For more information regarding our training courses, please contact a training representative via email or call us at (800) 94-LASER.

Laser Sentry Entryway Control System

Rockwell Laser Industries offers a broad line of control systems and accessories that allow the facility Laser Safety Officer to more easily implement the ANSI Z136 based requirements for a laser controlled area. The cornerstone of these products is the RLI Laser Sentry™ Entryway Control Unit, a microprocessor based entryway control system.

Laser Sentry accessories include warning signs such as the the RLI Bi-Lume™ or Tri-Lume™ along with the traditional Illuminated warning sign. There are also a wide selection of entryway control components including entryway numerical access and push button entryway controls, doorway interlocks, magnetic door locks, emergency control switches and other similar entryway and area controls.

A typical installation may be completed in a few hours with a single Laser Sentry™ control unit, a few standard burglar alarm/door access control components, and multi-conductor low voltage control wire.

For more information regarding the Laser Sentry Entryway Control System, please contact an RLI sales representative via email or by calling (800) 94-LASER.
 

Laser Enclosure Design and Manufacturing

RLI offers custom design and manufacturing of laser enclosures for either manually operated or fully automated installations.

RLI can also assist those producing their own enclosures to ensure that all proper regulations and control measures are satisfied.

Services include:

For more information regarding our enclosure design and manufacturing, please contact Nancy Mauro via email or by calling (800) 94-LASER.
 

For more information regarding our laser safety products, training courses and consulting services, please contact us by email, or call us at (800) 94-LASER.