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Emergency Lighting Part 1: Design (1 Day)
This one-day course enables fire safety professionals to design an emergency lighting system. The course is based on BS 5266-1
**This course will cease to run at the end of March 2025 and will be incorporated into a new two day course available from April onwards. Theose booked on this course have until the end of April 2025 to take part 2.
The new combined course can be found at https://www.fia.uk.com/training/training-course-browser/emergency-lighting.html **
- Engineers with some basic knowledge of lamps and light fittings
- More experienced engineers
- Basic knowledge of lamps and light fittings
- Basic regulations, relevant Standards, and when emergency lighting is needed
- Types of emergency lighting
- Exit sign pictograms, luminance and viewing distances
- Luminance requirements, lux levels, uniformity and duration requirements
- Emergency lighting for cinema and theatre auditoria
- Choosing maintained or nonmaintained luminaries
- Design procedures covering all points of emphasis, such as stairs
- Using manufacturers’ spacing tables for escape routes and open areas
- Simple designs for high risk areas
- Conversion of mains luminaries for emergency use, achieving lux levels and using conversion spacing tables
- Disability glare and colour requirements
- Basic installation, wiring and fuse protection
- Automatic testing
- Being able to design, install, test and maintain emergency lighting systems
- Engineers will gain the knowledge and understanding to be able to provide advice on emergency lighting, design a lighting scheme and be able to install, test and maintain as required
- Course manuals to take away and refer to
- FIA members – £150 +VAT Payable by invoice or debit/credit card
- Non-members – £265 +VAT Payable only by debit/credit card
