Emergency Lighting
As the name suggests, emergency lighting is intended to provide enough light for people to find their way out of a building in the case of an emergency. There are certain guidelines for installing emergency lighting in regards to where they are positioned, what the minimum and maximum height levels are and acceptable glare. These lights also need to be tested regularly. In all new high occupancy residential buildings and commercial buildings, emergency lighting is installed as standard. Examples of such buildings would be blocks of apartments, university dormitories, hospitals, cinemas, nightclubs, theatres, retail stores and industrial warehousing. It is now also necessary for older buildings to also install emergency lighting.
In all work places where there is a threat of failure of the artificial lighting, it is necessary to have emergency lighting. Areas where emergency lights are commonly installed include stairwells, escape routes, where there is a change in direction, exit points, near fire equipment and near to first aid points.
Emergency lighting works with a generator system or with a battery and when the power source to the light is cut off, the emergency lighting will start. At the Lighting Centre we have a range of emergency lighting available including external and internal bulkheads, 2D bulkheads, LED emergency lights, illuminated fire exit signs, emergency/twinspots and power cut lighting. We also have conversion kits, test equipment and replacement batteries.
If you need help with any aspect of emergency lighting for your business then speak to our team of dedicated professionals who will be able to help you make the right choice. This is a very important aspect of your lighting requirements and you may need some professional help which we will be more than happy to provide. Just give us a call today to discuss your needs and we will point you in the right direction in terms of your emergency lighting needs.
This soon became a problem and it was deemed that a more focused, powerful light was needed. Modern emergency floodlighting provides a wide angled, high lumen light which can light a large area brightly. Other varieties of emergency lighting contain halogen bulbs, providing a source of light similar to that on a car’s headlight.
Modern emergency lighting of today is installed in nearly every commercial and high occupancy residential building and consists of at least one incandescent bulb or clusters of energy saving LEDs. The lighting heads themselves are usually a PAR36 sealed beam or a wedge base lamp. All modern units also use a reflector which focuses the light produced and this is either in the form of a plastic cover on the fixture or on a reflector placed behind the light source.
Many individual light sources can be rotated and aimed for where light is needed most, such as towards fire exits and the fixtures of today usually have a test button which overrides the unit temporarily and allows the light to activate to check for full functionality.
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