At the moment the only areas in use are reception and workshops/classrooms on ground floor (which are the areas refurbed).

The kind of emergency lighting system your building requires depends on the nature of your business. For example, the emergency lighting system is not always required to provide light at the same intensity as the mains (however, it should be bright enough for safe evacuation). By working with the qualified engineers at Voltix Services , system designs and the ideal testing regime are all part of our compliance services . Is your building permanently used E.G. Hotels, then you need to test the lights so that the end of the test corresponds to the start of day. In this way the emergency lights will have a good time to recharge during daylight hours. Natural daylight will help if the emergency lights don’t last 3 hours. Should I test ALL emergency lights at once? Any other relevant information, such as details of training provided to staff on the use of the emergency lighting system.The name of the person or organization responsible for the maintenance and testing of the emergency lighting system. These professionals can advise on the steps that need to be taken to determine the extent and details of the emergency lighting system within a particular building. Our experienced testers conduct over 14,000 emergency lighting tests every year in properties across the UK. They test and inspect all units to ensure they’re functioning correctly. Pre-service audit

Details of the testing and commissioning carried out on the emergency lighting system, including dates and the results of the tests. It can take up to 24 hours for batteries on emergency lighting systems to recharge after a full discharge test. For businesses, testing should be planned around periods of non-occupancy – like over the weekend. In full-time tenanted buildings, other strategies may be necessary to ensure that systems work around testing times. A key-switch. This is installed on the permanent live supply to an emergency fitting. When actuated it isolates the emergency fitting, thus simulating a power failure. The duration that emergency lighting should stay on for depends on the relevant regulations and standards, as well as the specific requirements of the building and its occupants. However, the general requirement is that emergency lighting should remain illuminated for a minimum of 1 hour, but it may need to remain illuminated for up to 3 hours in certain circumstances.

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UK fire regulations stipulate that your emergency lights should be turned on and off monthly to test them and have a full service once a year. The latest British Standard recommends that you have a 3 hour emergency lighting test once a year, during which your main light circuit should be switched off and your emergency lights left on for a 3 hour period to find out of any batteries need replacing. How can Equiptest help me? L SW is the normal mains supply. A normal light switch, or sensor, would usually be on this circuit to enable the end-user to have control over the light fitting in normal operating mode. L SW is always to be wired so that any switching of L PERM will disconnect L SW too, but any switching of L SW will not affect L PERM. Sometimes there isn’t a test key switch. If not then you have to find the consumer unit and turn off the power to the whole circuit that controls the emergency lights. Hopefully it will be marked which one it is, but it could be more than one circuit.

Confirmation that the emergency lighting system has been designed and installed to meet the specific requirements of the building and its occupants. There are different ways to test emergency lighting in the UK, depending on the type of emergency lighting system and the requirements of the relevant regulations and standards. However, the following is a general procedure for testing emergency lighting: Self-test has several benefits. First, it saves the labour of manual testing. Secondly, it removes the risk that routine monthly or annual testing is overlooked.

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High risk task area lighting provides light for the safety of people involved in potentially dangerous processes. This lighting enables proper shut-down procedures to be followed for the safety of the operator and other occupants of a building. We also offer a number of additional services which are available alongside our regular monthly emergency lighting or weekly fire alarm tests. Confirmation that the emergency lighting system has been installed in accordance with the relevant regulations and standards. You need emergency lighting in areas that could be considered “dangerous” such as commercial kitchens or plant rooms. If your building has rooms larger than 60 square metres, then emergency lighting is recommended. How long do emergency lights need to stay on?