Maintained Or Non Maintained Emergency Lighting Regulations

It is linked into the building s lighting circuitry and reacts to a power failure ensuring emergency exit routes remain illuminated.

Maintained or non maintained emergency lighting regulations.

It is designed to come on in the event of a mains power failure making sure all emergency exit routes are clearly illuminated but will not be active as your normal day to day lighting system. Non maintained emergency lighting is designed to turn on in the event of a power failure. The classification of maintained and non maintained mode of operation can be. This is a luminaire whose lamps only come on when the power supply to the lighting fails.

This will be a dedicated emergency light and cannot be used for normal room lighting. For non residential premises used for recreation such as theatres cinemas concert halls exhibition halls sports halls public houses and restaurants and where the normal lighting might be dimmed or turned off a maintained or combined emergency escape lighting system should be installed. A non maintained emergency light will only illuminate when there is a power cut. Non maintained emergency lighting is a luminaire made solely for emergency use.

This type of emergency lighting is mostly found in the workplace such as offices and factories where people are. Non maintained lights are typically found in the work place where artificial lighting is normally deployed whilst the premises are occupied. In maintained systems individual luminaries each incorporate a battery that is charged from the mains lighting supply. Escape lighting should comply with the appropriate recommendations of bs 5266.