Never underestimate the importance of emergency lighting

If you are a business owner, you have a moral, legal and financial duty to do everything possible to provide a safe workplace for your staff. However, even with the best-laid plans, emergencies do happen and when they do, you will want to make it as easy as possible for your staff to quickly escape the building to safety. This is where emergency lighting proves its worth in gold.

Here at Sparks Warehouse, we offer such lighting in various forms. You may be interested in a Luceco non-maintained emergency downlight that features a built-in battery and white finish and is illuminated green in normal mode, and white in emergency mode. Alternatively, it may be a KB 14W 6000K LED Bulkhead light that you require, this cool-running and energy efficient unit producing 1200 lumens and being manufactured from Robust Polycarbonate Body and diffuser. It is suitable for both outdoor and indoor environments in workplaces or homes.

We also stock escape route lighting panels that help the occupants of a building to immediately identify their means of escape and emerge to a place of safety. These green and white panels direct your staff to a fire exit, Luceco offering an emergency bulkhead with self-adhesive legend. This unit is made from polycarbonate body and diffuser and incorporates high capacity and long-lasting Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cd) batteries. The bulkhead can be viewed from as far away as 24 metres and has an emergency operation time of three hours.

Whichever exact light unit(s) you choose, the basic premise of emergency lighting is clear: it normally operates fully automatically in an emergency situation when the workplace's normal illumination fails as a result of a cut in the main power supply - whether due to a fire or a straightforward power cut. Either situation can result in sudden darkness and the occupants being put in danger, whether due to physical danger or panic.

Although new buildings are generally already fitted with emergency lighting during construction in line with the then-latest Building Regulations and the requirements of local councils, for obvious reasons, this is not necessarily the case with older or certain other structures.

Whether your given building is a school, college, hotel, hospital, nursing home, club, office, shop, museum or almost any other property type, you are sure to find the most suitable emergency lighting in stock at Sparks Warehouse. Talk to our team today about how we can supply the lighting that makes the most sense for your particular workplace or home's requirements.