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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: Guest on January 28, 2004, 02:33:48 PM

Title: Illuminating escape routes for the visually impaired
Post by: Guest on January 28, 2004, 02:33:48 PM

Does any of you techno wizards have any information for designing emergency lighting levels used by visually impaired persons.
Reference documents would be great!

Title: Illuminating escape routes for the visually impaired
Post by: Guest on January 28, 2004, 07:29:33 PM

Try searching 'Cook' at Reading University. He has published many articles on this subject. Low level wayfinding or miniture incandescant lighting can be appropiate but one can't escape from the conclusion that if people with poor vision are used to finding their way around a bulding in normal circumstances the provision of 'ordinary E/L will probably be just as good.

Title: Illuminating escape routes for the visually impaired
Post by: colin todd on January 30, 2004, 03:49:11 AM

BRE published two IPs on this several years ago.