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When Is An Emergency Light, Not An Emergency Light?
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<blockquote data-quote="binky" data-source="post: 394378" data-attributes="member: 490"><p>I asked a friend of mine who is a fuly registered fire assessor about emergency lights with signs this morning. His comments are not repeatable in a family magazine, but needless to say he confirmed that this 'signage non-sense' is rollocks.</p><p></p><p>Anyone competent of reading said emergency illumination guidance and associated standards would be familiar with the fact that signs v lights does not exist in differentiating from the fact that illumination levels is the defining criteria. From memory that is 1 lumen at floor level, I forget the spread over floor area figures, but is surprisingly feeble in my opinion. How that is achieved is basically irrelevent, whether that be a light shining through a green sticker or not, what matters is the illumination levels to guide occupants of the building out of a safe exit. This could be achieved with fairy lights and a batttery pack if desired as long as the illumination levels are achieved for the appropiate duration of time.</p><p></p><p>As for competence, being trained as fire assessor doesn't mean competence either, it means someone can pass an exam, same as being a 5ww qualified sparky.... Competence comes from the ability to read, understand and correctly apply appropiate standards to the situation. Recording such information is always a good idea, but, we generally show compliance by issue of an appropiate certficate which should pick up all salient design points if completed correctly. Signing of said cert is legally accepting responsibility for the design and also demonstrating competence to the client - you wouldn't sign anything unless you felt competent to do so (some would of course but that is another discussion) which is why signing certs should not be undertaken lightly in any circumstances, and should be exercised with great care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="binky, post: 394378, member: 490"] I asked a friend of mine who is a fuly registered fire assessor about emergency lights with signs this morning. His comments are not repeatable in a family magazine, but needless to say he confirmed that this 'signage non-sense' is rollocks. Anyone competent of reading said emergency illumination guidance and associated standards would be familiar with the fact that signs v lights does not exist in differentiating from the fact that illumination levels is the defining criteria. From memory that is 1 lumen at floor level, I forget the spread over floor area figures, but is surprisingly feeble in my opinion. How that is achieved is basically irrelevent, whether that be a light shining through a green sticker or not, what matters is the illumination levels to guide occupants of the building out of a safe exit. This could be achieved with fairy lights and a batttery pack if desired as long as the illumination levels are achieved for the appropiate duration of time. As for competence, being trained as fire assessor doesn't mean competence either, it means someone can pass an exam, same as being a 5ww qualified sparky.... Competence comes from the ability to read, understand and correctly apply appropiate standards to the situation. Recording such information is always a good idea, but, we generally show compliance by issue of an appropiate certficate which should pick up all salient design points if completed correctly. Signing of said cert is legally accepting responsibility for the design and also demonstrating competence to the client - you wouldn't sign anything unless you felt competent to do so (some would of course but that is another discussion) which is why signing certs should not be undertaken lightly in any circumstances, and should be exercised with great care. [/QUOTE]
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