Checklist · Safety & Compliance
Laser safety: what the standard is actually asking for
Appointing a laser safety officer satisfies the box on the form. A gap check against what the appointment is supposed to be holding up.
glover-works-laser-safety-program-gaps.pdf
Naming an LSO is straightforward, and frequently where it stops. What the standard asks for is not a person — it is a set of things that person is responsible for. The title is how you assign that responsibility. It is not a substitute for it.
This is a self-assessment, not a compliance audit, and it is not a substitute for reading the standard that applies to you. It is the set of questions we ask on a first walkthrough.
What is in it
- Classification and inventory (3 checks)
- Control measures (4 checks)
- Training and records (4 checks)
- The program behind the title (4 checks)
Most organizations we walk into pass the first two sections and fail the last one. Competent people and no structure behind them is the normal state, not an unusual failure — and it is recoverable in weeks rather than months.
Want help applying it?
These are the questions we ask on a first walkthrough. If the answers are uncomfortable, that is usually where the work starts.