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Lighting is an important aspect in all work environments often not considered until lighting is inadequate. The key aspects of lighting are both quantity and quality. The hazards caused from inadequate lighting range from headaches especially for detailed work or where flicker is involved, trips and falls often related to contrast from a bright outdoor environment to a poorly lit indoor environment, to vehicle accidents caused from glare or insufficient lighting on night roadworks.
Work environments that should undergo special consideration are:
- All internal environments should have lighting to suit specific tasks
- Nightwork particularly for temporary and/or construction work
- Adequacy of Emergency Lighting
The lighting guide below gives indication of minimum lighting requirements for particular areas.
Once you have accurate measurements of the quantity of lighting the quality considerations include the colour of the light, glare, contrast and flicker.
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The PST-C337 is the perfect tool for light level measurements, be it in office or factory environment, or at a sports field, the companion for the job is PST-C337 to ensure conditions are right. The PST-C337 has a light range from 0.00 lx to 40,000 lx (0.000 fc to 4,000 fc). The PST-C337 provides an auto zero function at power on to ensure no drift affecting your readings. With a layout with the sensor at the top, this is one of few light meters that provide true one hand operation.
* Please refer to our download page for user guide.
| Class of Task |
Recommended Maintained illuminance lx
|
Characteristics of the activity/interior | Representative activities/interiors |
| Movement and Orientation* | 40 | Interiors rarely visited with visual tasks limited to mov ement and orientation | Corridors, cable tunnels, indoor storage tanks; walkways |
| Rough Intermittent | 80 | Interiors requiring intermittent use with visual tasks limited to movement, orientation and coarse detail. | Staff change rooms; live storage of bulky materials; dead storage of materials needing care;locker rooms;loading bays |
| Simple Workplace tasks | 160 | Any continuously occupied interior where there are no tasks requiring perception of other than coarse detail. Occasional reading of clealry printed documents for short periods. | Waiting Rooms, staff canteens; rough checking of stock; rough bench and machine work; enterance halls; general fabrication of structural steel; casting concrete; automated process monitoring; turbine halls. |
| Ordinary or Moderately easy work tasks | 240 | Continuously occupied interiors with moderately easy visual tasks with high contrasts or large detail | School chalkboards and charts; medium woodworking; food preparation; counters for transactions. |
| Moderately Difficult work tasks | 320-400 | Areas where visual tasks are moderately difficult with moderate detail or with low contrasts | Routine office tasks eg reading, typing, enquiry desks. Inspection of medium work; fine woodwork; car assembly |
| Difficult work tasks | 600 | Areas where visual tasks are difficult with small detail or with low contrast | Drawing boards; most inspection tasks;proofreading;fine machine work; fine painting and finishing; colour matching |
| Very difficult work tasks | 800 | Areas where visual tasks are very difficult with very small detail or with very low contrast | Fine inspection;paint retouching; fine manufacture; grading of dark materials; clolour matching of dyes. |
| Extremely Difficult | 1200 | Areas where visual tasks are extremely difficult with extremely small detail or f low contrast. Visual aids may assist | Graphic arts inspection; hand tailoring; fine die sinking; inspection of dark goods; extra fine benchwork |
| Exceptionally Difficult | 1600 | Areas where visual tasks are exceptionally difficult with exceptionally small detail or with very low contrasts. Visual aids will be of advantage. | Finished fabric inspection; assembly of minute mechanisms, jewellry and watchmaking. |