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Easy to Follow Tips for Installing Emergency Exit Light in Your Facility

Photoluminescent Exit Signs

One mistake contractors are guilty of making is avoiding emergency light until smoke from a fire makes it impossible for the general public to find the exit. Emergency lights illuminate paths to safety, thus reducing the risk of injury and death. According to legislation, all the commercial buildings need Photoluminescent Exit Signs that comply with fire codes and standards. If it's your first time installing the exit signs, there are various things you need to take into account. It's essential to know the importance of installing exit signs, but do you know where to install them. If you are in the middle of the construction project, or you want to make changes in your commercial buildings, you have to follow specific rules and regulations with regard to the emergency lighting installation.

Many regulatory bodies establish codes that govern the installation, inspection and testing of emergency lighting and exit signs. Some of these rules include:

·         Occupational safety and health administration

·         National fire protection association

·         International fire codes

·         International building codes

In addition to these codes, contractors must ensure the exit signs comply with national, regional and provincial guidelines.

Where can you install exit signs?

If you are planning to install Ecoglo Photoluminescent Exit Signs in your facility, these pointers will come to your rescue.

·         Contractors can install emergency signs in commercial, industrial, and instructional—educational, medical and other types of buildings.

·         Install in all the exit routes in a building, like hallways, stairwells, corridors. All these places must be illuminated with emergency backup lights so that people with low vision can easily see them.

·         In the internal rooms, bathrooms, storage areas that are larger than a broom closet and have no windows and hence are in need of emergency lighting.

·         All these fixtures must be properly spaced to prevent excessive bright and dark spots.

Lights must be appropriately installed to illuminate the walkway and make it easy for pedestrians to find the exit,

Things to consider while installing the exit signs

·         Lights must provide enough light to evacuate:

It will be difficult for pedestrians to find the exit without emergency lighting. Even the employee who walks through the halls every day may get disoriented and get lost once the power goes out. In the event of an emergency, emergency light guide the building occupants to safety.

·         Must have an independent power source:

Emergency lights must come with an independent power source from the rest of the building. So, people can easily evacuate regardless of whether the building has power.

·         Shorter escape paths:

Contractors must develop a strategic plan to install Code Compliant ExitSigns along all the planned escape paths.

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