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Hi all,
We have members of staff that operate moving machinery during day and night hours. Whilst the machinery is operation there is a high intensity orange strobe light flashing in the vision ark of the operator.
Could anyone advise, if they are on an 8 hour shift could this light be damaging the eyes?
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It will surely be extremely distracting to the driver/ operator and therefore a somewhat counter-productive safety measure.
The beacon could be mast or roof-mounted perhaps?
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Can also bring on or enhance in certain situations certain mental/medical condition e.g. Epilepsy
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Under the Artificial Optical Radiation regs, which came in last year you need to carry out a risk assessment to identify any risk to staff caused by light sources. The risk mainly depends on the intensity of the light and its frequency. You say this is a high intensity light, how intense is it? A very strong beam could cause significant damage, especially if it was strobing. Eyes natural react to intense light sources (aversion reflex) but a strobing light source might defeat this reflex. Do you need this light or can you put up a simple shield to block it? Failing that look at some sort of eye protection. Have a look at this http://www.hse.gov.uk/ra...onionising/aor-guide.pdf for more information or get in touch with the HPA who wrote this for the HSE.
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Some great advice. Thanks all
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