This book provides a guide to vision and lighting fundamentals for workplace safety. Highlighting potential problems that can develop as a consequence of poor illumination, it recommends solutions that bring practitioners into compliance with United Kingdom safety regulations. The discussion begins with basic physical and biological information and moves through a treatment of how lighting affects such factors as posture and vision.

This guide replaces the 1984 publication entitled An Informational Guide for Roadway Lighting. It has been revised and brought up to date to reflect current practices in roadway lighting. The guide provides a general overview of lighting systems from the point of view of the transportation departments and recommends minimum levels of quality. The guide incorporates the illuminance and luminance design methods, but does not include the small target visibility (STV) method.

This guidance explains how lighting can contribute to the health and safety of people at work. Aimed at those responsible for health and safety at work, it deals with managing the health and safety risks from lighting in the workplace; good practice and lighting recomendations.

The importance of lighting for the safety of road users, the convenience of people of all levels of ability, and the prevention of street crime can hardly be exaggerated. Added to this, the considerable number of recent developments and the complexity of the issues involved in effective and environmentally acceptable road lighting make this broadly-based treatment of the subject both timely and welcome.Dr Ir Schreuders aim is to clarify the subject for all those involved in road lighting, from planning, through design and engineering, to implementation and maintenance.