Testing regime for E/L units in residential unmanned sites

[hammer1]

If you had a residential property which were unmanned and had no sort of caretaker facility. Would you think it justified that instead of BS5266 monthly test/inspection it was 3 monthly and the annual drain down. Risk assessing that the property is secure the contractor confirm the E/L are in good nick, persons will be familiar with the building and the escape routes, some have some natural borrowed light anyway.

Would a enforcing officer accept this or code hug and insist monthly, no matter how impracticable it may be (also taking note LACORS accept that sometimes the testing regimes on unmanned properties can not be practicable).

[kurnal]

BS recommends monthly so thats the benchmark. So if you can only achieve 3 monthly what can you do to achieve an equivalent level of safety?

Like monitoring each unit and recording frequency of bulb and battery failures and putting in preventative maintenance to catch them before they fail. Especially in very cold or very hot areas.
Putting in more fittings than you need to design in some resilience. Planning your 3 monthly visits to carry out 50% of the annuals at the same time. Changing the fittings for low maintenance units such as LED units. So long as you do something worthwhile that compensates for your reduction in tests to 33% of the benchmark recommendation.