Emergency & Exit Light Testing
Emergency Exit Lights help building occupants to find exits during an emergency or power failure. Ensuring that your exit lights are operating can help prevent a minor emergency from becomming more dangerous by allowing workers and customers to quickly get away from danger.
Our Emergency Exit Light Testing & Maintenance Services
Occupational Safety Services provide emergency evacuation lighting testing to conform to Australian standards AS/NZS 2293. These standards require regular periodical 6 monthly testing which includes:
- Revamping of expired tubes and lamps
- Ensuring each light has adequate electrical supply
- Discharge tests
- Visual inspection
- Replacement of any non-compliant fittings and batteries
- Functionality Tests
- All full record of fitting details and test procedures
Six – Monthly Procedures:
- Visual check of all emergency and exit lights for mains operation.
- Check for operation of maintained exit lights
- Where manual discharge test facility is present, operate test switch / circuit breaker to simulate a power failure.
- The emergency and exit lights shall remain illuminated for not less than 90 minutes.
- Restore the emergency and exit lights to normal charging condition.
- Check operation of all maintained exit lights and all charge indicators.
- Report any failures on test sheets and service repair reports.
Twelve – Monthly Procedures:
- Carry out all checks as per six-monthly procedures.
- Clean all emergency and exit lighting diffusers as required
- Visual check to ensure that the emergency and exit lighting operates in correct relationship to the normal lighting in the designated areas
- Remove diffuser
- Inspect lamp/tube. Should be replaced if ends are blacked
- Remove insects and dry the diffuser
- Record make/model/location/type of lamp
- Apply Barcode and next test date due label to the base of the unit
- At completion of testing, reset all circuit breakers and that all exit lights re-illuminate