The regulations are intended to protect workers from health and safety risks arising from exposure to artificial optical radiation during work. Optical radiation is defined and exposure limits are set. Employers are required to determine exposure, assess risks, provide information and training, make health surveillance available and to, where possible, eliminate the risk at source and if that is not possible reduce the risk of exposure to a minimum. Employers may be required to display warning signs.
The regulations have been designed to fit within the framework of the General Application Regulations, as Part 9 of the General Application Regulations and with the addition of a new schedule – schedule 11- to the regulations. Quoted from the Health and Safety Review
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