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Ensure your workplace lighting meets safety, health, and efficiency standards with a professional Light Level Analysis.
Poor lighting can lead to eye strain, fatigue, and even workplace accidents, making it essential to assess and optimize both natural and artificial lighting.
Let us help you create a safer, more comfortable, and productive working environment.
Getting the lighting right in your workplace isn’t just about visibility—it’s about safety, comfort, and productivity.
Poor lighting can lead to eye strain, headaches, reduced concentration, and even workplace accidents.
That’s why it’s essential to ensure that your natural and artificial lighting meets industry standards.
At ESI: Electrical Safety Inspections, we specialise in Light Level Analysis, helping businesses achieve optimal workplace lighting that aligns with health and safety regulations.
To ensure your lighting is sufficient and compliant, there are several key industry standards to follow:
📌 Published by the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), these are comprehensive guides covering:
✔ Recommended lux levels for different workplace activities.
✔ The balance of natural and artificial lighting.
✔ How lighting impacts employee well-being and performance.
📌 The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) sets out workplace lighting standards in HSG38, emphasizing:
✔ The quality and quantity of workplace lighting.
✔ Emergency lighting requirements.
✔ How to assess and reduce risks related to poor lighting.
📌 These regulations state that:
✔ All workspaces must have suitable lighting for safe movement and operations.
✔ A mix of natural and artificial lighting should be used where possible.
✔ Emergency lighting should be adequately maintained.
📌 If employees use computers, monitors, or laptops, lighting must:
✔ Reduce glare and reflections.
✔ Be adjustable and suitable for screen-based work.
✔ Ensure employees aren’t straining their eyes due to poor lighting conditions.
Our team of lighting engineers uses advanced tools like Lux Level Meters and Data Loggers to accurately measure workplace lighting.
A Light Level Analysis may involve:
🔹 Software-Based Desktop Surveys – Using lighting photometrics to predict and optimize workplace illumination.
🔹 On-Site Surveys During Working Hours – Assessing how employees experience lighting in real-time.
🔹 Out-of-Hours Surveys – Measuring artificial lighting effectiveness when natural light is absent.
Once data is collected, we map lux level readings onto CAD plans, providing a clear, detailed report on whether your lighting meets compliance standards.
At ESI: Electrical Safety Inspections, we take workplace lighting seriously.
Our expert team ensures that your lighting meets industry standards, helping you:
✔ Improve workplace safety & employee well-being.
✔ Reduce risks of accidents & eye strain.
✔ Ensure full compliance with UK regulations.
We use cutting-edge technology and up-to-date industry knowledge to deliver the best lighting solutions for your workplace needs.
Ensure your light levels are safe, compliant, and fully operational.
✔ Detailed workplace light level analysis by qualified electrical engineers
✔ Fast, professional support for businesses & landlords
✔ Serving Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire & Kent
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In this section, we answer common questions about workplace lighting, recommended lux levels, industry regulations, and Light Level Analysis.
Whether you need to assess your current lighting or are looking to improve workplace conditions, our expert insights will help you understand everything you need to know.
Proper lighting is essential for safety, comfort, and productivity.
Poor lighting can lead to eye strain, headaches, fatigue, and even workplace accidents.
Ensuring adequate lighting helps employees stay focused and reduces health and safety risks.
Lighting levels are measured in lux (light intensity).
Some common recommendations include:
Key regulations include:
✅ SLL Code for Lighting & SLL Lighting Handbook – Best practices for lighting design.
✅ HSE Lighting at Work (HSG38) – Health & safety lighting requirements.
✅ Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992 – Ensures workplaces have suitable lighting.
✅ Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Regulations 1992 – Reduces glare and eye strain for computer users.
Light Level Analysis is a detailed assessment of your workplace lighting using lux level meters and data loggers.
It measures whether natural and artificial lighting meet the recommended industry standards for safety, comfort, and efficiency.
Our engineers use lux level meters to record lighting levels across different areas.
Surveys can include:
🔹 Daytime analysis – Evaluating natural and artificial light.
🔹 Evening/out-of-hours surveys – Measuring artificial lighting performance.
🔹 Computer modeling (desktop surveys) – Using photometric data to predict light levels.
It’s recommended to conduct a Light Level Analysis:
✔ When designing a new workspace or refurbishing an office.
✔ If employees complain about poor lighting, glare, or eye strain.
✔ After changes in layout, workstation positions, or lighting fixtures.
✔ As part of a routine health & safety audit (typically every 2-5 years).
Inadequate lighting can cause:
❌ Eye strain, headaches & fatigue
❌ Reduced concentration & productivity
❌ Trips, slips & falls due to poor visibility
❌ Increased risk of workplace accidents
Natural lighting is ideal for well-being, but it’s not always consistent or available in all areas.
Artificial lighting should be designed to complement natural light, ensuring even distribution and minimal glare.
A Light Level Analysis helps achieve the right balance.
Some key improvements include:
✔ Upgrading to energy-efficient LED lighting.
✔ Using adjustable desk lamps for computer workstations.
✔ Installing motion-sensor or dimmable lighting to suit different tasks.
✔ Reducing glare & reflections with anti-glare screens or diffusers.
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