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Purposes of emergency lighting installation

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Emergency lighting provides safe evacuation, exit identification, safe shutdown, panic prevention, locating fire equipment, rescue support, continued essential work, and legal compliance. It must operate automatically from an independent source when the normal supply fails.

Write down main purposes for installation of emergency lighting in industry.

Emergency lighting is lighting that operates automatically from an independent source when the normal lighting supply fails. Its main purposes in an industry are:

  1. Safe evacuation: light escape routes, corridors, stairs and exits so people can leave quickly and safely.
  2. Exit identification: keep exit and direction signs lit so the way out is clear.
  3. Safe shutdown: let operators stop machines, close valves and make processes safe (high-risk task lighting).
  4. Avoid panic and accidents near moving machinery, open pits, hot or hazardous areas.
  5. Locate fire-fighting and safety equipment: extinguishers, call points, first-aid boxes.
  6. Help rescue and fire-fighting teams during an emergency.
  7. Continue essential work (standby lighting) in control rooms, substations and medical rooms.
  8. Meet legal requirements of fire and factory safety codes (about 1 lux minimum on escape routes for 1–3 h).

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