Lighting Your Office, Officinado Business Help Directory
Lighting Your Office
Appropriate office lighting is an essential component of an office environment because of its effect on comfort of employees. The consequences of inadequate lighting may range from a dreary and uninteresting working environment to one where visual discomfort and fatigue are conducive to eyestrain, headaches, poor posture and muscle fatigue.Lighting problems can occur in any type of office environment from the home office to the corporate HQ,but problems tend to be more common and severe for office PC users.
The main reason for this is that offices in the past required high levels of illumination because typewriters, pens and pencils were used extensively and paper was the primary medium for information. The modern Office today tends to rely more and more on computers, which generally do not require such high levels of lighting. Offices where computers are used should have lower illumination levels if possible since high light levels can make computer displaysharder to view.
If light levels are decreased, desk lights can be used to provide additional light for pen and paper tasks.
Glare is a very common lighting problem. Glare is the sensation produced when the levels of light are sufficiently greater than the level to which the eyes have adapted. In extreme cases, such as oncoming car headlights at night, glare can be severe enough to impair vision temporarily. Fortunately, in most office situations, glare is less extreme. The usual effects of excessive glare in the office include eyestrain, visual fatigue or similar visual discomfort.
Light reflected from polished, shiny objects within the visual field can cause visual discomfort. Although reflections can affect both computer and non-computer tasks, computer users probably tend to experience the most significant impact of reflections due to the orientation and the large area covered by the convex shape of the computer screen. Light sources located above or behind the computer user can be reflected and visible on the monitor's screen.
It is best to position computer workstations between rows of overhead lights rather than directly below, this will help to reduce the intensity of the light source.
You should position computer workstations at right angles to windows (e.g. operator does not face window or have back to window); this will move the light source out of your line of sight.
Office screens/partitions can be used to block light from windows and overhead lights creating a more pleasant working office environment.
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