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Recommendations for good lighting

4.1 Indoor workplaces


Type of task or activity Traffic zones and general areas inside buildings Traffic Zones Circulation areas and corridors Stairs, escalators, travalators Loading ramps/bays Rest, sanitation and first aid rooms Canteens, pantries Rest rooms Rooms for physical exercise Cloakrooms, washrooms, bathrooms, toilets Sick bay Rooms for medical attention Control rooms Plant rooms, switch gear rooms Post room, switchboard Store rooms, cold stores Store and stockrooms Dispatch packing handling areas Storage rack areas Gangways : unmanned Gangways : manned Control stations Industrial activities and crafts Agriculture Loading and operating of goods, handling equipment and machinery Buildings for livestock Sick animal pens, calving stalls Food preparation, dairy, utensil washing Bakeries Preparation and baking Finishing, glazing, decorating Cement, cement goods, concrete, bricks Drying Preparation of materials, work on kilns and mixers General machine work Rough forms Ceramics, tiles, glass, glassware Drying Preparation, general machine work Enamelling, rolling, pressing, shaping simple parts, glazing, glass blowing Grinding, engraving, glass polishing, shaping precision parts, manufacture of glass instruments Grinding of optical glass, crystal, hand grinding and engraving Precision work e.g. decorative grinding, hand painting Manufacture of synthetic precious stones Em UGRL Ra

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80 40 80 80 80 80 20 40 80 80 20 80 80 80 80 90 90

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)


Type of task or activity Chemical, plastics and rubber industry Remote-operated processing installations Processing installations with limited manual intervention Constantly manned work places in processing installations Precision measuring rooms, laboratories Pharmaceutical production Tyre production Colour inspection Cutting, finishing, inspection Electrical industry Cable and wire manufacture Winding -Large coils -Medium-sized coils -Small coils Coil impregnating Galvanising Assembly work -Rough e.g. large transformers -Medium e.g. switchboards -Fine e.g. telephones -Precision e.g. measuring equipment Electronic workshops, testing, adjusting Food stuffs and luxury food industry Work places and zone in -Breweries, malting floor -For washing, barrel filling, cleaning, sieving, peeling -Cooking in preserve and chocolate factories -Work places and zones in sugar factories -For drying and fermenting raw tobacco, fermentation cellar Sorting and washing of products, milling, mixing, packing Work places and critical zones in slaughter houses, butchers, dairies mills, on filtering floor in sugar refineries Cutting and sorting of fruit and vegetables Manufacture of delicatessen foods, kitchen work, manufacture of cigars and cigarettes Inspection of glasses and bottles, product control, trimming, sorting, decoration Laboratories Colour inspection Foundries and metal casting Man-size underfloor tunnels, cellars, etc. Platforms Sand preparation Dressing room Work places at cupola and mixer Casting bay Shake out areas Machine moulding Em 50 150 300 500 500 500 1000 750 300 300 300 500 750 300 300 300 500 750 1000 1500 UGRL 28 25 19 22 22 16 19 25 25 25 22 19 25 25 25 22 19 16 16 Ra 20 40 80 80 80 80 90 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80

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25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 22 22 19 16 25 25 25 25 25 25 25

80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 90 20 40 80 80 80 80 80 80

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)


Type of task or activity Hand and core moulding Die casting Model building Hairdressers Hairdressing Jewellery manufacturing Working with precious stones Manufacture of jewellery Watch making (manual) Watch making (automatic) Laundries and dry cleaning Goods in, marking and sorting Washing and dry cleaning Ironing, pressing Inspection and repairs Leather and leather goods Work on vats, barrels, pits Fleshing, skiving, rubbing, tumbling of skins Saddlery work, shoe manufacturer, stitching, sewing, polishing, shaping, cutting, punching Sorting Leather dyeing (machine) Quality control Colour inspection Shoe making Glove making Metal working and processing Open die forging Drop forging Welding Rough and average machining: tolerances 0.1mm Precision machining, grinding: tolerances < 0.1mm Scribing, inspection Wire and pipe drawing shops, cold forming Plate machining: thickness 5mm Sheet metalwork: thickness < 5mm Tool making, cutting equipment manufacture Assembly Rough Medium Fine Precision Galvanising Surface preparation and painting Tool, template and jig making, precision mechanics, micromechanics Paper and paper goods Edge runners, pulp mills Paper manufacture and processing, paper and corrugating machines, cardboard manufacture Standard bookbinding work e.g. folding, sorting, gluing, cutting, embossing, sewing Em 300 300 500 500 1500 1000 1500 500 300 300 300 750 200 300 500 500 500 1000 1000 500 500 200 300 300 300 500 750 300 200 300 750 200 300 500 750 300 750 750 200 300 500 UGRL 25 25 22 19 16 16 16 19 25 25 25 19 25 25 22 22 22 19 16 22 22 25 25 25 22 19 19 25 26 22 19 25 25 22 19 25 25 25 25 25 22 Ra 80 80 80 90 90 90 80 80 80 80 80 80 40 80 80 90 80 80 90 80 80 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)


Type of task or activity Power stations Fuel supply plant Boiler house Machine halls Side rooms e.g. pump rooms, condenser rooms, etc., switchboards (inside buildings) Control rooms Outdoor switch gear Printers Cutting, gilding, embossing, block engraving, work on stones and platens, printing machines, matrix making Paper sorting and hand printing Type setting, retouching, lithography Colour inspection in multicoloured printing Steel and copper engraving Rolling mills, iron and steel works Production plants without manual operation Production plants with occasional manual operation Production plants with continuous manual operation Slab store Furnaces Mill train, coiler, shear line Control platforms, control panels Test, measurement and inspection Underfloor man-sized tunnels, belt sections, cellars, etc. Textile manufacture and processing Work places and zones in baths, bale opening Carding, washing, ironing, devilling machine work, drawing, combing, sizing, card cutting, pre-spinning, jute and hemp spinning Spinning, plying, reeling, winding Warping, weaving, braiding, knitting Sewing, fine knitting, taking up stitches Manual design, drawing patterns Finishing, dyeing Drying room Automatic fabric printing Burling, picking, trimming Colour inspection, fabric control Invisible mending Hat manufacturing Vehicle construction Body work and assembly Painting, spraying chamber, polishing chamber Painting, touch-up, inspection Upholstery manufacture (manned) Final inspection Wood working and processing Automatic processing e.g. drying, plywood manufacturing Steam pits Saw frame Work at joiners bench, gluing, assembly Em 50 100 200 200 500 20 500 500 1000 1500 2000 50 150 200 50 200 300 300 500 50 200 300 500 500 750 750 500 100 500 1000 1000 1500 500 500 750 1000 1000 1000 50 150 300 300 UGRL 28 25 25 16 19 19 19 16 16 28 25 25 25 22 22 25 22 22 22 22 22 22 28 25 19 16 19 22 22 22 19 19 19 28 28 25 25 Ra 20 40 80 60 80 20 80 80 80 90 80 20 40 80 20 20 40 80 80 20 60 80 80 80 80 90 80 60 80 80 90 90 80 80 80 90 80 80 40 40 60 80

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)


Type of task or activity Polishing, painting, fancy joinery Work on wood working machines e.g. turning, fluting, dressing, rebating, grooving, cutting, sawing, sinking Selection of veneer woods Marquetry, inlay work Quality control, inspection Offices Offices Filing, copying, etc. Writing, typing, reading, data processing Technical drawing CAD work stations Conference and meeting rooms Reception desk Archives Retail premises Retail premises Sales area Till area Wrapper table Places of public assembly General areas Entrance halls Cloakrooms Lounges Ticket offices Restaurants and hotels Reception/cashier desk, porters desk Kitchen Restaurant, dining room, function room Self-service restaurant Buffet Conference rooms Corridors Theatres, concert halls, cinemas Practice rooms, dressing rooms Trade fairs, exhibition halls General lighting Libraries Bookshelves Reading area Counters Public car parks (indoor) In/out ramps (during the day) In/out ramps (at night) Traffic lanes Parking areas Ticket office Em 750 500 750 750 1000 UGRL 22 19 22 22 19 Ra 80 80 90 90 90

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)


Type of task or activity Educational premises Nursery school, play school Play room Nursery Handicraft room Educational buildings Classrooms, tutorial rooms Classroom for evening classes and adult education Lecture hall Black board Demonstration table Art rooms Art rooms in art schools Technical drawing rooms Practical rooms and laboratories Handicraft rooms Teaching workshop Music practice rooms Computer practice rooms (menu driven) Language laboratory Preparation rooms and workshops Entrance halls Circulation areas, corridors Stairs Student common rooms and assembly halls Teachers rooms Library: bookshelves Library: reading areas Stock rooms for teaching materials Sports halls, gymnasiums, swimming pools (general use) School canteens Kitchen Health care premises Rooms for general use Waiting rooms Corridors (during the day) Corridors (at night) Day rooms Staff rooms Staff office Staff rooms Wards, maternity wards General lighting Reading lighting Simple examinations Examination and treatment Night lighting, observation lighting Bathrooms and toilets for patients Em UGRL Ra

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)


Type of task or activity Examination rooms (general) General lighting Examination and treatment Eye examination rooms General lighting Examination of the outer eye Reading and colour vision tests with vision charts Ear examination rooms General lighting Ear examination Scanner rooms General lighting Scanners with image enhancers and television systems Delivery rooms General lighting Examination and treatment Treatment rooms (general) Dialysis Dermatology Endoscopy rooms Plaster rooms Medical baths Massage and radiotherapy Operating areas Pre-op and recovery rooms Operating theatre Intensive care unit General lighting Simple examinations Examination and treatment Night watch Dentists General lighting At the patient Operating cavity White teeth matching Laboratories and pharmacies General lighting Colour inspection Decontamination rooms Sterilisation rooms Disinfection rooms Autopsy rooms and mortuaries General lighting Autopsy table and dissecting table Em 500 1000 300 1000 500 750 300 1000 300 50 300 1000 500 500 300 500 300 300 500 1000 100 300 1000 20 200 500 1000 5000 5000 500 1000 300 300 300 500 5000 UGRL 19 19 19 16 22 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 25 19 19 19 22 22 22 19 Ra 90 90 80 90 90 80 80 90 80 80 80 80 80 90 80 80 80 80 90 90 90 90 90 90 80 90 90 90 90 80 90 80 80 80 90 90

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)


Type of task or activity Transportation areas Airports Arrival and departure halls, baggage claim areas Connecting areas, escalators, travolators Information desks, check-in desks Customs and passport control desks Waiting areas Luggage store rooms Security check areas Air traffic control tower Testing and repair hangers Measuring areas in hangers Railway installations Covered platforms and passenger subways Ticket hall and concourse Ticket and luggage offices and counters Waiting rooms Em 300 200 150 500 500 200 200 300 500 500 500 50 200 300 200 UGRL 22 22 22 19 19 22 25 19 16 22 22 28 28 19 22 Ra 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 40 40 80 80

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