BRCGS has published the best lighting practices for food industry and their supply chain. Factories are always in dilemma about the lux levels and lighting requirements within the different processing areas. There are local standards like factory act in India and similar regulations in other part of the world but still it is not specific to food industry and its supply chain.
Below is a recommended guideline for Illumination or Lux Levels for various environments. TECHNOCRAT CONSULTANTS designs the factories to required food safety / product safety standards in line with such published standards to have optimum infrastructure to manage food and product safety.
High risk lighting areas
A high-risk lighting area is defined as one where hazardous activity occurs that has to be made safe or terminated before leaving or where people passing may be exposed to the hazard, e.g. moving machinery.
The lighting requirements for high-risk areas are as follows:
- Minimum illuminance on the task: 10% of the maintained illuminance on the reference plane of the task, but at least 15 Lux
- Minimum/average illuminance uniformity on the reference plane for the task 0.1
- Maximum response time: 100% of minimum illuminance within 0.5s of supply failing
- Minimum duration: 1 hour
