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Emergency lighting in hotels is a necessary legal requirement. Since the introduction of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (RRFSO) 2005, it has become the responsibility of the person in control of non-domestic buildings to ensure the safety of everyone inside, this includes employees and guests at hotels.
In 2013, the standards changed to include new guidance, concerning high risk task lighting, swimming pools and open balcony areas. Steps must be taken to ensure that emergency lighting is easy to see, and takes into account the needs of people with disabilities and visual impairments.
Emergency lighting needs to be tested and maintained on a regular basis as required by BS EN 50172. This is a legal requirement, and failure to comply is an offence that may result in prosecution, the maximum penalty is an unlimited fine and/or two years in prison
The emergency lighting design must take into account the following:
- Escape route signs
- Stairs so that each flight receives direct light
- Changes in floor level
- Changes of escape route direction
- Corridor intersections
- First aid posts
- Fire alarm call points or pieces of fire fighting equipment
- Outside the final exit door and to a place of safety
- Moving stairways and walkways
- Toilet facilities exceeding 8m² or any multiple closet facility without borrowed light
- Toilet facilities for disabled use
- Motor generator, control and plant rooms
- Manual release controls for electronically locked doors
- Escape equipment for disabled people
- Refuges and call points, including disabled toilet call positions
- All other areas as deemed by the Risk Assessment
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Corridors & Office
Exit Signs
Reception, Lobby & Gym
Exit Signs
Laundry
Exit Signs
Wireless Testing
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order failure to provide a compliant system and failure to regularly test and maintain it can result in prosecution for the employer or building owner who may face fines and imprisonment if convicted. Manual testing of emergency luminaires can be a long and arduous process, which can be open to error. Legally, as required by BS EN 50172, each luminaire must complete a function test once a month and a full three-hour duration test once a year. Performing this process manually requires the engineer to be present to ensure that the luminaire stays lit for the duration of the tests, a time consuming and costly process, especially on large sites.
Self-testing luminaires remove this need and, in its simplest form, the basic requirement is to observe the status indicator to see if the luminaire has failed a test.
BS EN 62034:2012 is the European Standard for Automatic Test Systems for Battery Powered Emergency Escape Lighting. One of the main requirements is that the device must be self-monitoring and that it checks all tests are being performed at specified intervals.
SPECTO-XT.
A Philip Payne Specto-XT emergency luminaire will automatically test itself to the specified schedule, and constantly monitor its own performance. Test regimes and other user-defined parameters can be programmed via the website and downloaded to the Gateway.
The web portal retains historic records (determined by local standards) which are displayed in graphical form. These records, together with site documentation, are easily accessible by client authorised users
Legislation, Standards and Guidance Documents include:
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- Building Regulations Approved Document B 2010
- BS EN 1838:2013
- BS EN 50172:2004
- BS 5266-1:2016
- BS EN 62034:2012
- BS 5499-4:2013
- BS ISO 7010:2012+A7:2017
- SLL Lighting Guide 12 (LG12)
