Emergency lighting is required to be tested at regular intervals. This could be as often as every day, or the standard monthly or annual testing as stipulated by regulations BS EN 50172:2004 / BS 5266-8:2004.  Spire Security can attend your premises and advise you of a service routine that suits you and your building requirements. This can be annually or more frequently if required.

Emergency lighting can be ‘maintained’, i.e. on all the time, or ‘non-maintained’, i.e. normally off and only operates when the normal lighting fails. Emergency lights should operate for one, two or three hours, depending on the application but in practice most emergency lights are three hour operation. Emergency lights will also provide some use in the premises during a power failure other than an emergency situation.