In contrast to well-defined industrial laser processes, there is limited knowledge regarding secondary hazards due to emission of gaseous and particulate hazardous substances during outdoor-laser applications, such as facades cleaning, pipelines repair and rescue from crashed vehicles, including hazardous-substances capturing and handling. According to the German Clean-Air Act (TA-Luft), results of emission measurements in the exhaust air of a 3.0 kW laser cutting process of typical automotive-multilayer structures were correlated with assessment criteria for the main hazardous components found, leading to requirements for exhaust-air cleaning. Complementary, air measurements at the operation site according to TRGS 402 were performed to evaluate whether the inhalation-exposure limits for hazardous substances released from the laser-process zone and not captured by the exhaust equipment were complied with, considering assessment criteria according to TRGS 900 and TRGS 910. The investigations showed that additional measures to reduce hazardous-substance concentrations are dispensable, if the exhaust unit is dimensioned correctly