This Recommendation provides guidelines and requirements for techniques to enable optically safe
working conditions (for the human eye and skin) on optical interfaces of the optical transport network, including conventional synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) systems, for equipment in both restricted and controlled locations.The actual definition and specification of optically safe levels are considered outside the scope of this Recommendation (they are provided by IEC).The main fields of application are systems designed for the optical transport network employing Raman amplification and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems with large channel counts. For the purpose of ease of operating these systems, this Recommendation focuses on automatic power reduction (APR) techniques with automatic restart.