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Essential Guidelines for Protective Lighting

The document provides guidelines for protective lighting around facilities. It states that critical areas should be adequately illuminated, with perimeter lighting to assist in surveillance. Protective and working lights should be on separate power lines, with an auxiliary system to kick in when needed. Lights must be powered from a separate source and controlled by timers, photocells, or manually. Illumination should allow easy detection of movement at 100 yards without causing glare for guards. Fixtures must be vandal-proof and lighting should not be easily compromised. Lux is the metric unit for measuring light, replacing footcandles, with 1 lux equal to about 0.1 footcandles.

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Essential Guidelines for Protective Lighting

The document provides guidelines for protective lighting around facilities. It states that critical areas should be adequately illuminated, with perimeter lighting to assist in surveillance. Protective and working lights should be on separate power lines, with an auxiliary system to kick in when needed. Lights must be powered from a separate source and controlled by timers, photocells, or manually. Illumination should allow easy detection of movement at 100 yards without causing glare for guards. Fixtures must be vandal-proof and lighting should not be easily compromised. Lux is the metric unit for measuring light, replacing footcandles, with 1 lux equal to about 0.1 footcandles.

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Protective Lighting

Adequate to illuminate critical areas Adequate illumination over entrances Perimeter to be illuminated assist in surveillance Protective & working light to be on the separate lines Auxiliary system to go into operation when necessary
Must be powered from a separate power source.

Protective light to be time controlled or by photocell or manually Switch boxes & automatic timer to be securely located Adequate illumination
to detect man movement easily at 100 yards

Protective Lighting
Check lights for operation daily prior to darkness The cones of illumination from lamps are to directed downward and away from the facility proper and away from guard personnel lights must be mounted to provide glare free vision
Glare=brightness within the field of vision that causes eye fatigue or loss in visual performance;

Fixture must be vandal proof The lighting should not be easily compromised Fixture must be vandal proof The lighting should not be easily compromised

Protective Lighting
The lux is the metric unit of light measurement it replaces the footcandle (fc) Illumination is measured in lux (lx)
Illumination measures the visible light falling per unit area in a given position illumination concerns the spectral sensitivity of the human eye Illumination can also be measured in foot-candles (fcd): One lux equals about one tenth of a footcandle 1 lx = 10.76 fcd. (Note that 1 lx can be interpreted as 1 meter-candle).

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