Emergency Lighting Testing

[boboelectric]

With National Fire Safety Week coming up in October, I'd like a refresher on testing light units.
Bob O.84,Pa.

 

[bphgravity]

http://www.nfpa.org/categoryList.as...ng/Public Education/Fire Prevention Week 2006

 

[muskiedog]

Here are the basics

Here are the basics

NFPA 101 31-1.3.8 Periodic Testing of Emergency Lighting Equipment states: A functional test shall be conducted on every required emergency lighting system at 30-day intervals for a minimum of 30 seconds. An annual test shall be conducted for the 1 ?-hour duration. Equipment shall be fully operational for the duration of the test. Written records of testing shall be kept by the owner for inspection by the authority having jurisdiction.

OSHA 29 CFR.1910.36 (d)(2) states: ?Every automatic sprinkler system, fire detection and alarm system, exit lighting, fire door, and other item of equipment, where provided, shall be continuously in proper operating condition.?

 

[dlhoule]

NFPA 101 31-1.3.8 Periodic Testing of Emergency Lighting Equipment states: A functional test shall be conducted on every required emergency lighting system at 30-day intervals for a minimum of 30 seconds. An annual test shall be conducted for the 1 ?-hour duration. Equipment shall be fully operational for the duration of the test. Written records of testing shall be kept by the owner for inspection by the authority having jurisdiction.

OSHA 29 CFR.1910.36 (d)(2) states: ?Every automatic sprinkler system, fire detection and alarm system, exit lighting, fire door, and other item of equipment, where provided, shall be continuously in proper operating condition.?

I agree with what you have stated above. My question is how many places do you know of have any kind of enforcement of those articles? How many places do any of the above tests. I know of a few but they are definitely a very small minority.

 

[muskiedog]

On Going Battle.

On Going Battle.

I have been doing it for about twenty years. It is one of my number on gigs though when I do my facility inspections. No one needs them till the power is out.

 

[tallgirl]

I have been doing it for about twenty years. It is one of my number on gigs though when I do my facility inspections. No one needs them till the power is out.

Dittos on emergency disconnects, such as for computer labs. My recollection from past lives is that they were supposed to be tested once or twice a year, with a log maintained somewhere. A lot of the logs I see are mostly empty because no one wants to shut down an entire lab worth of machines, punch the Big Red Button, verify that the power dropped, then restart all the machines.

Makes me feel rilly gud when I've got my head stuck under a raised floor, trying to find something.