Lighting round-up Check your emergency lighting
To help ‘Responsible Persons’ ensure Fire Risk Assessments are carried out regularly and adequately documented, self-testing emergency lighting manufacturer, P4, has produced a ‘Tick Box Checklist’ for use when risk assessing emergency lighting installations.
The company points out that it is recommended that a Fire Risk Assessment – as required by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO) – be carried out at least annually, or after any building modifications. It said: “Almost all healthcare premises will be subject to Fire Risk Assessments, but there is little guidance available on how risk assessments for emergency lighting should be documented. All such installations should be checked against current product and installation standards, to assure compliance with the RRO. Fire Risk Assessments must include assessment of Safe Means of Escape,
‘Connected’ external lighting
Schréder works closely with customers ‘to create the right balance of design, energy efficiency, light uniformity, and photometric performance, for any external lighting scheme’.
It said: “LED lighting is now driving innovation in ‘connected
including all emergency lighting provisions.” Following the requirements of the recently revised edition of BS5266 Part 1, the checklist provides a simple method of checking compliance with all parts of the standard, and presenting documented evidence necessary for a Fire Risk Assessment.
Meeting surgeons’ lighting needs
Starkstrom is the exclusive UK distribution of KLS Martin operating lights, which include the E-series and award-winning marLED V-series range. The company said: “marLED – the light of the second LED generation – has a compact design and significantly smaller high performance LEDs. Unlike conventional LED lighting, marLED allows light to be mixed inside the LED ‘light engines’ (in the light head), rather than on reaching the surgical site, effectively preventing the casting of colour and contour shadows.” Starkstrom has recently developed the marLED E3 – a high performance examination light offering a light output of 100,000 Lux, ‘ideal for day surgery, outpatients’ departments, examination rooms, oral and maxillofacial surgery, medical practices, and dental and oral surgery’.
In addition to the enhanced illuminance, other features include: Warm white/cool white LED technology. Helps surgeons distinguish true colour tissue in surgical cavities.
Optimised light field homogeneity. Good illumination of flat or deep tissue cavities.
Improved visual illumination depth (L1/L2).
Requires less light head movement to keep objects in focus.
A 40,000 hour expected LED lifetime. A ‘seamlessly integrated’ control panel, with ‘on/off’ and continuous dimming.
The new marLED E3 is reportedly easy to both use and clean, with a closed housing with smooth contours, and a sterile handle or handle element for use with disposable covers.
infrastructure’, by providing a central location to deploy multiple services. Multi-functional installations provide additional cost savings through lower maintenance contracts. Why employ four engineers to service four separate installations, when one can service the whole product in a fraction of the time, and at a fraction of the cost? “For instance the Schréder Shuffle – a connected, interactive, and multifunctional lighting column – is empowering healthcare facilities managers to reduce costs while increasing control and service coverage. The Shuffle fulfils multiple requirements in a single installation, removing the need for other street furniture. In just one installation, facilities managers can combine energy-efficient LED lighting, loudspeakers, CCTV, motion sensors, Wi-Fi, mobile device charging, and visual guidance tools. Taking advantage of a unique
energy supply grid to deploy multiple services, the modules, easy fixings, and plug- in connections, make the Shuffle an extremely flexible tool,
offering quick and inexpensive installation, very low maintenance, and low total cost of ownership.”
The world in a new light – a more intelligent approach
Trumpf Medical claims to be ‘once again setting new standards’ with its new generation of LED operating theatre lights – iLED 7 – ‘the LED light that thinks’. The company said: “Patient safety and ease of use are always key in the development of new products, and with this in mind the revolutionary technology of this new LED light allows operating theatre personnel to work under continuous lighting conditions at all times.” Trumpf cites ‘seven reasons’ for choosing iLED:
The lighting management system automatically maintains the brightness, colour temperature, and a consistent field size.
The ‘unique’ shadow management system ensures excellent illumination.
The light is ‘always flexible’, giving ‘the best possible lighting conditions at working distances of between 0.8 and 1.3 metres in all disciplines’.
A streamlined design for enhanced air flow, and ease of cleaning.
The modular concept allows the lights to be fitted with a standard handle, sterile operating handle, disposable handle, or camera.
An intuitive, practical, and adaptable operating concept.
Future compatibility with integration options.
Howorth Air Technology distributes, installs, commissions, and services, all Trumpf operating lights and pendants in mainland UK.
Health Estate Journal 35September 2016
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