Commercial Emergency Lighting & Installation Services
Emergency LED lighting is essential for UK businesses, providing critical safety and clear visibility during power outages or unexpected emergencies, ensuring compliance and protection for staff and visitors.
Surveys and Design
As an essential component of lighting design, emergency lighting ensures occupant safety by providing illumination in the event of a power failure. In the UK, this is a legal requirement and must comply with current regulations, the primary standard for compliance is BS 5266. We can assist in the design of UK law-compliant emergency lighting systems.
Supply & Installation
Emergency lighting plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of occupants in a building during an emergency. We offer a wide array of Emergency Lights including test, self-test and wireless/wired addressable test
Testing and Inspection
Emergency lighting testing and inspection is a critical process that ensures emergency lighting systems in buildings are functioning correctly.
Risk Assessment to BS5266 and remedial works
Is your emergency lighting system fully compliant with BS5266 regulations? Non-compliance can lead to severe penalties including fines and imprisonment, invalidate insurance policies, lead to operational disruptions, and most importantly present serious safety risks.
Why Emergency Lighting is Important
- Compliance with Regulations: The UK has specific regulations and building codes that require the installation of emergency lighting systems in commercial and public buildings. These regulations are in place to ensure occupant safety and provide guidance on the types and locations of emergency lighting.
- Evacuation Safety: In the event of a power outage or emergency, emergency LED lighting helps guide occupants safely to exits, stairwells, and evacuation routes. This is critical for preventing panic, injuries, and facilitating a swift evacuation during emergencies such as fires or other unforeseen incidents.
- Visibility in Low Light Conditions: Emergency LED lights are designed to provide illumination in low-light or total darkness, ensuring that critical areas remain visible. This is particularly important for identifying emergency equipment, exit signs, and other safety features when regular lighting is not available.
- Maintaining Critical Functions: In situations where normal lighting systems fail, emergency LED lighting ensures that essential functions, such as emergency exits, escape routes, and safety equipment, remain visible and operational.
- Crisis Response: Emergency LED lighting aids emergency responders, such as firefighters or security personnel, by maintaining visibility within buildings during crisis situations. This assists in their efforts to navigate and manage the emergency effectively.
- Minimising Disruption: Power outages can occur unexpectedly due to various reasons, including electrical faults, severe weather, or other emergencies. Emergency LED lighting helps minimise disruption by providing immediate illumination, allowing occupants to continue their activities with reduced interruption.
- Legal and Liability Considerations: Failure to comply with emergency lighting regulations in the UK can lead to legal consequences and increased liability in the event of accidents or injuries. Properly installed and maintained emergency LED lighting systems help businesses and property owners meet their legal obligations.
Our promise
Why choose us
We are the ones that will guide you to the future.
Years of experience
For over 25 years we’ve delivered compliant emergency lighting for commercial sites across the UK, offices, warehouses, factories, retail and estates. We survey routes, exits and open areas, design to BS 5266 and BS EN 1838, and phase installs around your operations with clear timelines and safe methods.
Energy Efficient experts
From maintained/non-maintained fittings to self-test and addressable systems, we specify the right luminaires, spacings and photometrics to achieve required lux levels and uniformity. Our engineers integrate controls with DALI-2 or central test panels, provide signage to BS 5499, and deliver as-fitted drawings, certificates and logbooks.
Building a better future
We set up monthly function tests and annual 3-hour tests, schedule planned maintenance, and replace batteries/fittings before failures impact compliance. Need upgrades during LED refurbishments? We align emergency coverage with your new layout, cut energy use, and keep you audit-ready—today and long-term.