Emergency Lighting

• The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 for England and Wales.
  Article 14 Emergency routes and exits.
• The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 for Scotland.
  Section 58 Scottish Ministers’ power to make regulations about fire safety.

To assist persons within your premises, to reach a place of safety in an emergency, when the main lights fail, for one reason or another.

• BS 5266-1: Emergency Lighting Part 1: 2005 Code of practice for Emergency Lighting.
• BS EN 50172: 2004/BS 5266-8 2004 Emergency Escape Lighting Systems.

This advice is available from a number of sources:-

• Building control officers;
• Recommendations from the Local Fire Officer;
• From a Fire Risk Assessor following a fire risk assessment of your premises;
• Approved suppliers of emergency lighting equipment.

An approved electrical contractor enrolled with NICEIC (National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting).

Carry Out Daily Inspection:-

• All maintained luminaries should be operational;
• Control equipment of central battery systems or generators should indicate normal operation;
• Any faults should be recorded in a logbook and the action taken should be noted;
• Any faults in the log book should have received attention.

Monthly Inspection:-

• Simulate a mains failure to check all emergency/exit lights are working;
• Any generators should be started up by simulating a mains failure and should be run for at least one hour.

Six Monthly Inspection:-

• As well as the normal monthly test, the condition of batteries should be checked by energising the luminaries.

Three Yearly Inspection:-

• The entire installation should be checked for compliance with the design code.

Fire Log Book:-

All tests to recorded in the fire log book, test certificates should be kept with the fire log book to be available for inspection by relevant authorities.