Emergency-lighting systems
Scope functional checks, full-duration testing, condition review and planned maintenance around the installed system, escape routes and occupied-building constraints, while keeping system testing separate from any design or coverage appraisal.
Scope confirmed firstPremises, systems and required output agreed before instruction.
Appropriate competenceThe delivery route is matched to the agreed specialist scope.
Usable written evidenceReports and findings are returned against the correct site.
Discipline-specific methodThe approach and evidence are matched to emergency-lighting testing and maintenance.
Service overview
The test should identify the premises and luminaires or system in scope, confirm the test method and duration, record operation during loss of the normal supply, identify failures or limitations, and state the next action. Routine functional testing, full-duration discharge testing, maintenance and design verification are different activities.
Get the right scope for my siteRegulatory framework
These summaries identify the principal framework in England, Wales or Great Britain as labelled. The exact duty depends on jurisdiction, premises, equipment, use and the party in control.
Requires emergency routes and exits to be indicated and illuminated where necessary and requires a suitable maintenance system for fire-safety equipment and devices provided for the premises.
Provides the current BSI code of practice for emergency lighting design, installation, wiring, testing, maintenance and records across relevant premises.
Explains the role of emergency escape lighting and gives practical guidance on routine checks, functional tests, full-duration testing and maintenance records.
Summarises the Responsible Person’s duties to assess risk, provide appropriate fire precautions and maintain emergency arrangements.
Scope of service
Before appointment, we confirm the required output, available evidence, access limitations and the areas, systems or assets included in the instruction.
Reporting output
How it works
Review premises use, escape routes, asset information, logbooks and known defects.
Agree functional or duration testing, safe timing, access, system recovery and occupied-area controls.
Complete the agreed operation, duration and visible-condition checks and record limitations.
Return the test evidence and keep failed items, repairs and design questions as clearly separated next actions.
Built for the people managing the risk
Choose the route closest to your role and property type. The technical scope stays specific to this service while access, communication and reporting reflect the operating environment.
Coordinate test programmes, failures and evidence across client sites and contract reports.
See the sector approachPlan tests around trading, night work, tenant interfaces and repeated premises types.
See the sector approachSchedule discharge tests around occupied buildings, safeguarding and safe recovery windows.
See the sector approachMaintain evidence across public-facing spaces, varied operating hours and complex escape routes.
See the sector approachTechnical and procurement questions
The correct service depends on the premises, systems, equipment, use and dutyholder position. These points are confirmed before appointment.
Request a scoped quotationA functional test checks that the emergency lighting operates when the normal supply is interrupted. A full-duration test runs the system for its rated emergency period and records whether the required operation is sustained. The safe timing and recovery arrangements should be agreed before testing.
A typical premises programme includes a monthly functional test and an annual competent full-duration test, alongside routine visual checks. The final regime should reflect the applicable standard, premises fire-safety arrangements, system design and manufacturer information.
No. A duration test shows how the tested system operated; it does not confirm that the original design, coverage or siting remains adequate after layout or use changes. That may require a separate design review or survey.
Only where replacement authority, compatible parts and the necessary competence are included in the instruction. Otherwise failures are recorded and quoted as a separate repair scope.
Yes, where required and agreed. The quotation should account for access, building occupation, alarm or control interfaces, safe escape provision during the test and the recharge or recovery period afterward.
Request a quotation
Tell us about the property, system or equipment involved and what has prompted the instruction. We will confirm the information required before issuing a proposal.