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Your Responsibility:
To provide and maintain adequate lighting in your
workplace
WAC 296-800-21005
Provide and maintain adequate lighting
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Note:
This section establishes minimal levels of
lighting for safety purposes only. Guidelines pertaining to
optimal levels of lighting and illumination may be found in
Practice for Industrial Lighting, ANSI/IES
RP7-1979. (See the Resource Section of this book on how to contact
ANSI.) |
You must:
- Provide and maintain adequate lighting for all work
activities in your workplace. See the following table:
Lighting Table
| Activity |
Minimum
acceptable average lighting level in an area:
(Foot-candles) |
Any
one single measurement used to determine the average lighting
level* cannot be less than:
(Foot-candles) |
| Indoor task |
10 |
5 |
| Outdoor task |
5 |
2.5 |
| Nontask activities
for both indoor and outdoor |
3 |
1.5 |
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Lighting levels must be measured at thirty inches above the
floor/working surface at the task. |
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You must:
- Have adequate light for employees to see nearby objects
that might be potential
hazards or to see to operate emergency controls or other equipment,
if general lighting is not available.
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Note:
- Lighting levels can be measured with a light
meter.
- Conversion information: 1 foot-candle .=1
lumen incident per square foot .=10.76
lux.
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