Recommendations for good lighting

4.1 Indoor workplaces

Type of task or activity
Traffic zones and general areas inside buildings
Traffic Zones
Circulation areas and corridors
Stairs, escalators, travalators
Loading ramps/bays
Rest, sanitation and first aid rooms
Canteens, pantries
Rest rooms
Rooms for physical exercise
Cloakrooms, washrooms, bathrooms, toilets
Sick bay
Rooms for medical attention
Control rooms
Plant rooms, switch gear rooms
Post room, switchboard
Store rooms, cold stores
Store and stockrooms
Dispatch packing handling areas
Storage rack areas
Gangways : unmanned
Gangways : manned
Control stations
Industrial activities and crafts
Agriculture
Loading and operating of goods, handling equipment and machinery
Buildings for livestock
Sick animal pens, calving stalls
Food preparation, dairy, utensil washing
Bakeries
Preparation and baking
Finishing, glazing, decorating
Cement, cement goods, concrete, bricks
Drying
Preparation of materials, work on kilns and mixers
General machine work
Rough forms
Ceramics, tiles, glass, glassware
Drying
Preparation, general machine work
Enamelling, rolling, pressing, shaping simple parts, glazing, glass blowing
Grinding, engraving, glass polishing, shaping precision parts, manufacture of glass instruments
Grinding of optical glass, crystal, hand grinding and engraving
Precision work e.g. decorative grinding, hand painting
Manufacture of synthetic precious stones

Em

UGRL

Ra

100
150
150

28
25
25

40
40
40

200
100
300
200
500
500

22
22
22
25
19
16

80
80
80
80
80
90

200
500

25
19

60
80

100
300

25
25

60
60

20
150
150

22
22

40
60
60

200
50
200
200

25
25
25

80
40
80
80

300
500

22
22

80
80

50
200
300
300

28
28
25
25

20
40
80
80

50
300
300
750
750
1000
1500

28
25
25
19
16
16
16

20
80
80
80
80
90
90

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)

Type of task or activity
Chemical, plastics and rubber industry
Remote-operated processing installations
Processing installations with limited manual intervention
Constantly manned work places in processing installations
Precision measuring rooms, laboratories
Pharmaceutical production
Tyre production
Colour inspection
Cutting, finishing, inspection
Electrical industry
Cable and wire manufacture
Winding
-Large coils
-Medium-sized coils
-Small coils
Coil impregnating
Galvanising
Assembly work
-Rough e.g. large transformers
-Medium e.g. switchboards
-Fine e.g. telephones
-Precision e.g. measuring equipment
Electronic workshops, testing, adjusting
Food stuffs and luxury food industry
Work places and zone in
-Breweries, malting floor
-For washing, barrel filling, cleaning, sieving, peeling
-Cooking in preserve and chocolate factories
-Work places and zones in sugar factories
-For drying and fermenting raw tobacco, fermentation cellar
Sorting and washing of products, milling, mixing, packing
Work places and critical zones in slaughter houses, butchers, dairies mills, on filtering floor in
sugar refineries
Cutting and sorting of fruit and vegetables
Manufacture of delicatessen foods, kitchen work, manufacture of cigars and cigarettes
Inspection of glasses and bottles, product control, trimming, sorting, decoration
Laboratories
Colour inspection
Foundries and metal casting
Man-size underfloor tunnels, cellars, etc.
Platforms
Sand preparation
Dressing room
Work places at cupola and mixer
Casting bay
Shake out areas
Machine moulding

14 | Recommendations for Good Lighting

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UGRL

Ra

50
150
300
500
500
500
1000
750
300
300

28
25
19
22
22
16
19
25
25

20
40
80
80
80
80
90
80
80
80

300
500
750
300
300

25
22
19
25
25

80
80
80
80
80

300
500
750
1000
1500

25
22
19
16
16

80
80
80
80
80

200
200
200
200
200
300

25
25
25
25
25
25

80
80
80
80
80
80

500

25

80

300
500
500
500
1000

25
22
22
19
16

80
80
80
80
90

50
100
200
200
200
200
200
200

25
25
25
25
25
25
25

20
40
80
80
80
80
80
80

4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)

Type of task or activity
Hand and core moulding
Die casting
Model building
Hairdressers
Hairdressing
Jewellery manufacturing
Working with precious stones
Manufacture of jewellery
Watch making (manual)
Watch making (automatic)
Laundries and dry cleaning
Goods in, marking and sorting
Washing and dry cleaning
Ironing, pressing
Inspection and repairs
Leather and leather goods
Work on vats, barrels, pits
Fleshing, skiving, rubbing, tumbling of skins
Saddlery work, shoe manufacturer, stitching, sewing, polishing, shaping, cutting, punching
Sorting
Leather dyeing (machine)
Quality control
Colour inspection
Shoe making
Glove making
Metal working and processing
Open die forging
Drop forging
Welding
Rough and average machining: tolerances 0.1mm
Precision machining, grinding: tolerances < 0.1mm
Scribing, inspection
Wire and pipe drawing shops, cold forming
Plate machining: thickness 5mm
Sheet metalwork: thickness < 5mm
Tool making, cutting equipment manufacture
Assembly
Rough
Medium
Fine
Precision
Galvanising
Surface preparation and painting
Tool, template and jig making, precision mechanics, micromechanics
Paper and paper goods
Edge runners, pulp mills
Paper manufacture and processing, paper and corrugating machines, cardboard manufacture
Standard bookbinding work e.g. folding, sorting, gluing, cutting, embossing, sewing

Em

UGRL

Ra

300
300
500

25
25
22

80
80
80

500

19

90

1500
1000
1500
500

16
16
16
19

90
90
80
80

300
300
300
750

25
25
25
19

80
80
80
80

200
300
500
500
500
1000
1000
500
500

25
25
22
22
22
19
16
22
22

40
80
80
90
80
80
90
80
80

200
300
300
300
500
750
300
200
300
750

25
25
25
22
19
19
25
26
22
19

60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60

200
300
500
750
300
750
750

25
25
22
19
25
25
25

80
80
80
80
80
80
80

200
300
500

25
25
22

80
80
80

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)

Type of task or activity
Power stations
Fuel supply plant
Boiler house
Machine halls
Side rooms e.g. pump rooms, condenser rooms, etc., switchboards (inside buildings)
Control rooms
Outdoor switch gear
Printers
Cutting, gilding, embossing, block engraving, work on stones and platens, printing machines,
matrix making
Paper sorting and hand printing
Type setting, retouching, lithography
Colour inspection in multicoloured printing
Steel and copper engraving
Rolling mills, iron and steel works
Production plants without manual operation
Production plants with occasional manual operation
Production plants with continuous manual operation
Slab store
Furnaces
Mill train, coiler, shear line
Control platforms, control panels
Test, measurement and inspection
Underfloor man-sized tunnels, belt sections, cellars, etc.
Textile manufacture and processing
Work places and zones in baths, bale opening
Carding, washing, ironing, devilling machine work, drawing, combing, sizing, card cutting,
pre-spinning, jute and hemp spinning
Spinning, plying, reeling, winding
Warping, weaving, braiding, knitting
Sewing, fine knitting, taking up stitches
Manual design, drawing patterns
Finishing, dyeing
Drying room
Automatic fabric printing
Burling, picking, trimming
Colour inspection, fabric control
Invisible mending
Hat manufacturing
Vehicle construction
Body work and assembly
Painting, spraying chamber, polishing chamber
Painting, touch-up, inspection
Upholstery manufacture (manned)
Final inspection
Wood working and processing
Automatic processing e.g. drying, plywood manufacturing
Steam pits
Saw frame
Work at joiners bench, gluing, assembly

16 | Recommendations for Good Lighting

Em

UGRL

Ra

50
100
200
200
500
20

28
25
25
16
-

20
40
80
60
80
20

500

19

80

500
1000
1500
2000

19
19
16
16

80
80
90
80

50
150
200
50
200
300
300
500
50

28
25
25
25
22
22
-

20
40
80
20
20
40
80
80
20

200

25

60

300

22

80

500
500
750
750
500
100
500
1000
1000
1500
500

22
22
22
22
22
28
25
19
16
19
22

80
80
80
90
80
60
80
80
90
90
80

500
750
1000
1000
1000

22
22
19
19
19

80
80
90
80
80

50
150
300
300

28
28
25
25

40
40
60
80

4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)

Type of task or activity
Polishing, painting, fancy joinery

Em

UGRL

Ra

750

22

80

Work on wood working machines e.g. turning, fluting, dressing, rebating, grooving, cutting,
sawing, sinking

500

19

80

Selection of veneer woods

Marquetry, inlay work

750
750

22
22

90
90

Quality control, inspection

1000

19

90

Offices
Offices
Filing, copying, etc.
Writing, typing, reading, data processing
Technical drawing
CAD work stations
Conference and meeting rooms
Reception desk
Archives

300
500
750
500
500
300
200

19
19
16
19
19
22
25

80
80
80
80
80
80
80

Retail premises
Retail premises
Sales area
Till area
Wrapper table

300
500
500

22
19
19

80
80
80

100
200
200
300

22
25
22
22

80
80
80
80

300
500
200
300
500
100

22
22
22
22
19
25

80
80
80
80
80
80
80

300

22

80

300

22

80

200
500
500

19
19
19

80
80
80

300
75
75
75
300

25
25
25
19

20
20
20
20
80

Places of public assembly

General areas
Entrance halls
Cloakrooms
Lounges
Ticket offices
Restaurants and hotels
Reception/cashier desk, porters desk
Kitchen
Restaurant, dining room, function room
Self-service restaurant
Buffet
Conference rooms
Corridors
Theatres, concert halls, cinemas
Practice rooms, dressing rooms
Trade fairs, exhibition halls
General lighting
Libraries
Bookshelves
Reading area
Counters
Public car parks (indoor)
In/out ramps (during the day)
In/out ramps (at night)
Traffic lanes
Parking areas
Ticket office

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)

Type of task or activity
Educational premises
Nursery school, play school
Play room
Nursery
Handicraft room
Educational buildings
Classrooms, tutorial rooms
Classroom for evening classes and adult education
Lecture hall
Black board
Demonstration table
Art rooms
Art rooms in art schools
Technical drawing rooms
Practical rooms and laboratories
Handicraft rooms
Teaching workshop
Music practice rooms
Computer practice rooms (menu driven)
Language laboratory
Preparation rooms and workshops
Entrance halls
Circulation areas, corridors
Stairs
Student common rooms and assembly halls
Teachers rooms
Library: bookshelves
Library: reading areas
Stock rooms for teaching materials
Sports halls, gymnasiums, swimming pools (general use)
School canteens
Kitchen
Health care premises
Rooms for general use
Waiting rooms
Corridors (during the day)
Corridors (at night)
Day rooms
Staff rooms
Staff office
Staff rooms
Wards, maternity wards
General lighting
Reading lighting
Simple examinations
Examination and treatment
Night lighting, observation lighting
Bathrooms and toilets for patients

18 | Recommendations for Good Lighting

Em

UGRL

Ra

300
300
300

19
19
19

80
80
80

300
500
500
500
500
500
750
750
500
500
500
300
300
300
500
200
100
150
200
300
200
500
100
300
200
500

19
19
19
19
19
19
19
16
19
19
19
19
19
19
22
22
25
25
22
19
19
19
25
22
22
22

80
80
80
80
80
80
90
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80

500
750
200
200
50
200

22
22
22
22
22
22

80
80
80
80
80
80

500
300

19
19

80
80

100
300
300
1000
5
200

19
19
19
19
22

80
80
80
90
80
80

4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)

Type of task or activity
Examination rooms (general)
General lighting
Examination and treatment
Eye examination rooms
General lighting
Examination of the outer eye
Reading and colour vision tests with vision charts
Ear examination rooms
General lighting
Ear examination
Scanner rooms
General lighting
Scanners with image enhancers and television systems
Delivery rooms
General lighting
Examination and treatment
Treatment rooms (general)
Dialysis
Dermatology
Endoscopy rooms
Plaster rooms
Medical baths
Massage and radiotherapy
Operating areas
Pre-op and recovery rooms
Operating theatre
Intensive care unit
General lighting
Simple examinations
Examination and treatment
Night watch
Dentists
General lighting
At the patient
Operating cavity
White teeth matching
Laboratories and pharmacies
General lighting
Colour inspection
Decontamination rooms
Sterilisation rooms
Disinfection rooms
Autopsy rooms and mortuaries
General lighting
Autopsy table and dissecting table

Em

UGRL

Ra

500
1000

19
19

90
90

300
1000
500
750
300
1000

19
16
22
19
-

80
90
90
80
80
90

300
50

19
19

80
80

300
1000

19
19

80
80

500
500
300
500
300
300

19
19
19
19
19
19

80
90
80
80
80
80

500
1000

19
19

90
90

100
300
1000
20
200
500
1000
5000
5000

19
19
19
19
25
19
-

90
90
90
90
80
90
90
90
90

500
1000
300
300
300

19
19
22
22
22

80
90
80
80
80

500
5000

19
-

90
90

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4.1 Indoor workplaces (continued)

Type of task or activity
Transportation areas
Airports
Arrival and departure halls, baggage claim areas
Connecting areas, escalators, travolators
Information desks, check-in desks
Customs and passport control desks
Waiting areas
Luggage store rooms
Security check areas
Air traffic control tower
Testing and repair hangers
Measuring areas in hangers
Railway installations
Covered platforms and passenger subways
Ticket hall and concourse
Ticket and luggage offices and counters
Waiting rooms

20 | Recommendations for Good Lighting

Em

UGRL

Ra

300

22

80

200
150
500
500
200
200
300
500
500
500

22
22
19
19
22
25
19
16
22
22

80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80

50
200
300
200

28
28
19
22

40
40
80
80