If your compartment is already in vacuum and it takes a hit you will not have any problems like sudden gusts of wind slamming you onto sharp pointy torn bulkheads. ...
I was given to understand that this is not as big a problem as movies like to make it. Mythbusters did the explosive decomp thing which, admittedly, was not to vacuum but did suggest the only person who had to worry about wind would be the person immediately adjacent to the hole - who frankly is least likely to survive whatever made the hole in the first place.
If I understand the physics correctly, it's rather like a bathtub drain situation: the farther from the hole, the more volume you're dealing with so the lower the velocity of air movement. It exits the hole at the speed of sound but a few hole radii farther out there's much more air trying to crowd in so much slower speeds. 3 or 4 radii out and its noticeable but not something that's going to suck you in. Or am I not understanding that one right?
...Shock waves are not conducted by vacuum so you do not have overpressure injuries. ...
That's an excellent point that I hadn't considered.
...Yes a 250 MW laser pulse will cause explosions, but there is not an explosion like an explosive filled shell produces, it's more like what happens when a squish round hits, a bunch of armor bits fly away from the inner surface. (The KE to do this comes from the laser vaporizing some amount of armor from the surface.)
I hadn't realized lasers caused spalling, but on checking it I find a number of sources talking about laser spalling in a variety of materials. That's interesting. As I understand it, the sudden superheating of the affected material causes a compression wave that travels through to the other side and results in spalling on the far side. I would think it would be standard to have some elastic sandwiching material inside that would absorb the compressing wave to prevent that, given that lasers are so common a weapon.