Are escape routes clear? Fire warning systems Is the indicator panel showing ‘normal’? Are whistles, gongs or air horns in place? Escape lighting Are luminaires and exit signs in good condition and undamaged? Is emergency lighting and sign lighting working correctly? Fire˜ghting equipment Are all ˜re extinguishers in place?
Exit signs and escape route lighting helps prevent panic and supports the safe, efficient evacuation of occupants by marking emergency exits, pathways, obstacles and changes of direction. ... Emergency lighting luminaires used on escape routes are required to …
a) At each exit door intended to be used in an emergency b) Near stairs so each tread receives direct light c) Near any other change in level d) externally illuminated escape route signs, escape route direction signs and other safety signs needing to be illuminated under emergency lighting conditions e) At each change of direction
• Provide lighting for exit routes adequate for employees with normal vision. • Keep exit route doors free of decorations or signs that obscure the visibility of exit route doors. • Post signs along the exit access indicating the direction of travel to the nearest exit and exit discharge if that direction is not immediately apparent.
The purpose of emergency lighting is to ensure the safety lighting is provided promptly, automatically and for a suitable time, in a specified area when the normal mains power supply to the usual lighting installation fails. The overall objective of emergency escape lighting is to enable safe exit from a
Fire escape signs are provided to guide you from wherever you are in a building, via a place of relative safety (the escape route) to the place of ultimate safety (the assembly area). Fire escape signs are not needed on the main route into or out of a building (the one used by people for normal arrival and exit), but alternative escape routes and
area, so signs directing to the assembly area will be required. Fire escape signs are green and white - safe condition. They must comprise of a pictogram, an arrow (except a final exit sign on BS5499-4), and the words Fire Exit. Fire exit signage within any a building must be of type (standard) to reduce confusion.