Emergency lighting is essential for ensuring safe exits during power outages, accidents, or emergencies. Proper illumination and clear directions to the nearest exits are critical in these situations.
Incorporating Haloitte Lighting battery backup units into your space provides security and peace of mind for facility managers and business owners. Our LED emergency and battery backup lights are specifically designed to activate during power failures. With a battery backup system, the lighting immediately switches to emergency operation when power is lost.
Haloitte Lighting’s emergency battery backup fixtures provide at least 90 minutes of illumination following a power loss. This ensures that your business remains lit, emergency exits are visible, and parking lots are adequately illuminated for clients and employees. Our emergency lighting solutions highlight the means of egress—the pathways to exits, the exits themselves, and the point of discharge—during emergencies.
Various regulatory agencies and codes, including OSHA, JCAHO, NFPA, and local authorities, govern emergency lighting and exit sign requirements. Haloitte Lighting's externally illuminated lights meet the life safety code's requirements for illumination and contrast ratios, while our internally illuminated lights comply with ANSI/UL 924 standards.
NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code, mandates that emergency lighting must be present in designated areas leading to exits, such as stairs, aisles, corridors, and passageways. Emergency lighting must automatically illuminate for at least 90 minutes upon power loss to ensure safe egress.
Determining the number of emergency lights needed depends on your building's size and layout, including the location of corridors, stairways, doorways, and exits. NFPA 101 specifies that emergency lighting systems must provide an initial illumination of at least 1 foot-candle along the path of egress.
Separate emergency lighting units that connect to the building's power to charge their batteries are a popular solution. These units switch to battery power during a power outage, ensuring the lights remain operational for the required 90 minutes.
Haloitte Lighting offers a range of LED fixtures with the option to add an emergency battery backup to meet egress requirements. Whether you need high bays, LED panels, strip lights, canopies, wall packs, or other fixtures, we can help you determine the number and placement of emergency battery backup lights to meet egress and foot-candle requirements. Contact Haloitte Lighting, and we'll be happy to assist you with photometrics at no charge.