Maintained Or Non Maintained Emergency Lighting Regulations

Maintained and non maintained.

Maintained or non maintained emergency lighting regulations.

It is designed to come on in the event of a mains power failure making sure all emergency exit routes are clearly illuminated but will not be active as your normal day to day lighting system. The x dsa is a mini non maintained emergency light that will only come on in a mains failure. It is linked into the building s lighting circuitry and reacts to a power failure ensuring emergency exit routes remain illuminated. Non maintained emergency lighting is a luminaire made solely for emergency use.

Escape lighting should comply with the appropriate recommendations of bs 5266. This will be a dedicated emergency light and cannot be used for normal room lighting. This is a luminaire whose lamps only come on when the power supply to the lighting fails. For non residential premises used for recreation such as theatres cinemas concert halls exhibition halls sports halls public houses and restaurants and where the normal lighting might be dimmed or turned off a maintained or combined emergency escape lighting system should be installed.

A non maintained emergency light will only illuminate when there is a power cut. The classification of maintained and non maintained mode of operation can be. There are basically two types of emergency lighting systems. In maintained systems individual luminaries each incorporate a battery that is charged from the mains lighting supply.