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Experienced, Reliable Emergency and Exit Light Installers

Ensure your premises is fully in compliance

Business owners, building managers and even employers need to have a clear understanding of the Australian Standard 2293 for emergency and exit lighting. The standard is broken down into 3 parts and include numerous sections on the design, installation and maintenance of emergency lighting. Under the health and safety WHS laws, penalties and fines can be imposed on business owners, building managers and employers for non compliance with the regulations. Emergency lighting is required to be inspected, tested and serviced on a 6 monthly basis in accordance with AS/NZS Standards 2293. This ensures that all emergency and exit lighting is is functional and illuminates for a minimum time of 90 mins.

In the event of an emergency situation, emergency and exit lighting will help all occupants in a building quickly locate exit ways and provide a safe passage for evacuation. Have you ever noticed a sign attached to an emergency exit door or a fire stairs door, “DO NOT OBSTRUCT” “DO NOT KEEP OPEN”, it is an offence under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 to place anything in front of or near these doors that will hinder personnel from exiting the building and even to remove or interfere with any signage attached to the emergency door will also have penalties imposed. Emergency lighting has two main types, maintained and non-maintained and they have 3 main battery types: stand alone, central power and monitored.

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The class of the building

the standards for The Building Code Of
Australia state that class 2 – 9 buildings
must have emergency lighting systems
installed.

Your building classification can be found in The NCC {National
Construction Code}, and is crucial for identifying where your emergency lighting needs to be installed. With building class type 2, 3, and 4,
emergency and exit lighting must be installed in every passageway,
corridor or hallway that is part of an exit route for evacuation. The same rule applies for building class 5 to 9. In class 9a buildings {health care} all corridors, passageways, or the like, serving a treatment or ward area must have emergency lighting installed

The size of area space

when a floor area is greater than 300 m2, by law you must install
emergency lighting and you will even find floor areas of 100m2 that don’t open into a space with emergency lighting will require the installation of emergency lighting. If the floor area in building class 5 to 9 is greater than 300 m2 emergency lighting must be installed. In building class 6 to 9c, emergency lighting must be installed if the floor area in that storey is more 300 m2.

Was the building built before
or after the 1st of July 1994

it’s a simple obligation to follow under the Australian standards for
emergency lighting. Under the regulations there are different obligations to follow dependant on if the building was built before or after 1st July 1994. For instance, all class 6 buildings will require emergency and exit lighting if the building was built after 1st July and is 100 m2 in area. These types of class c buildings include cafes, restaurants, shops and bars.

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