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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 |
| * Lighting levels must be measured at thirty inches above the floor/working surface at the task. | ||
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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