Lux Intelligent manufacturer Advanced has developed a new CPD training module covering emergency lighting testing compliance.The new module has been designed to keep end users, facilities managers and engineers abreast of, and compliant with, the latest changes to emergency lighting standards, including a new ‘stay put’ category.
Advanced says attendees will also leave better equipped to improve the efficiency of their emergency lighting and consequently minimise costs.
‘Stay put’ lighting – also known as emergency safety lighting – was introduced into BS5266 last year, expanding the standard’s scope beyond escape and emergency lighting. The stay-put element was added because it is sometimes unnecessary or inappropriate for everyone to evacuate during a power failure/non-emergency mains failure. Those that choose to remain/stay put will need adequate lighting.
The stay-put component is especially relevant for elderly and very young people in care situations, where safety is more assured without evacuation. And public areas, such as retail spaces, may need to evacuate the public but not staff.
When lights are tested manually, an engineer must physically walk the building and cut power to the emergency lights, forcing them to operate on their secondary supply. He or she then needs to reinstate the mains power and confirm that the batteries are charging properly.
This is a time-consuming and tedious task that is not always completed accurately or reliably.
Added to that, it is not practical to disable the power for whole areas of a building during normal operational hours, so the process must be staggered or done outside of office hours.
Also, in case of a real emergency, no area of a building can be left without emergency lighting for the period after a test while the batteries are recharging.
Advanced offers its own, automatic emergency lighting test system, Lux Intelligent, which simplifies the entire process and is incredibly cost-effective, especially when using cloud-based monitoring via mobile or web app, which completely does away with the need for compiling manual reports and simplifies maintenance management.
Anyone interested in booking the training should e-mail [email protected].
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