The Important Of Health Lighting
One of the most important physical factors of living and working environment is lighting that has a significant impact on human safety. What’s more, lighting is also closely linked to visual performance and health. In the recent years, the rapidly develop technology of lighting source has changed the way to lighting design. Nowadays, providing a sufficiently illuminated workplace with energy-efficient and low cost is not enough, the sensation of glare is also important. The reasonable lighting design will give us a health and good lighting environment, otherwise, our visual comfort will be directly effected by the glare lighting.
This passage will analyse how the glare lighting makes us in the worse situation and how to deal with the glare lighting when doing a lighting project.
HOW The Glare Does Bad effects To Us?
Glare lighting is a light pollution endangers our security and our safety. Firstly, it will lead a harmful problem to our eyes. Due to a strong contrast to the night, it will end up any vision we have built and result in two situation if you stay long time under the glare lighting. Our rod cells are a thousand times more sensitive than our chromatic cone cells, but they take more than forty minutes or the elderly need longer to produce enough hormones to achieve this ability time. In this case, our pupils will closed by constricted or stopped down their front apertures to protect themselves. In the two result, the constriction of the pupil causes a reduction in the amount of light entering our eyes and the over-saturation of the rods causes a decrease in their sensitivity. In addition, it leads to temporary blindness when we encounter bright light at night. Although the cones are also still working and they can clearly see the glare illumination and its colors, they cannot see the darker areas beyond the glare illumination or the shadows normally caused by the glare illumination. More too be attention is the old people in our family, they are easy to fall and get hurt in front of a puddle while eyes temporary blind by the glare lighting. Most people may get a headache whom often live under the glare lighting environment.
Besides the eyes and headache problem effected by the glare lighting. You may seldom manage that the glaring will let your properties go away when you being temporarily blinded by a glaring light source. Bad lighting design will beneficial to criminals by creating deep shadows that offer conceal meant to them.You are at a disadvantage moment when your eyes dazzled by the glare lighting directly from it’s lighting source, and the attacker occur from the hidden place nearby to steal your value things in your inattention.
In addition to those above, the inappropriate lighting affect the commercial place as well. For example, if there are any glare lighting disturb, clients can not read or pick the book well in the bookstore, it declines client’s mood to continue shopping in the supermarket. Not only for that, if one frequency expose to the hazard lights that as one of the ambient physical factors, which could influence work-related illness considerably, and influence a drop in productivity.
Therefore, inadequate lighting like glare as the factor contribute to our safety, health and business risk. To reduce the hazard risk of glare lighting, appropriate lighting organized and suitable illuminating are necessary. So how to deal with the glare light? Let’s look at following.
The Solution For Reduce The Glare Lighting
Tips.1 Adjust The Head Of Illuminares
Pursing the adjustable head of LED light or using the freestanding LED light to adjustable their head, do not let the light source directly lights into your eyes. The head adjust also link to the cut off angle change, correct right cut off angle by adjusting the head to reduce the glare is also best measure.
Tips.2 Using The Filter
Generally, the filter is better to reduce the harmful lights to our skin and eyes. Such as the UV rays from the sunburns, the radiation emitted by electronic devices, and the glare glare lighting from the lighting source. Using a filter sick to the LED surface to reduce the intensity of interior lights, then lights effect will be tender to our eyes
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Tips.3 Using Diffuser Types
The diffuser as an LED screen that similar to the filter, but it’s more professional and functional for the lights. Most of diffuser made of PP (Polystyrene), PC (Polycarbonate), PMMA ( methyl methacrylate ) and glass. They are semi-transparent and translucent glass covers that are installed over the lenses to reduce the intensity of light. Prismatic diffuser with small hexagon has a good effect to adjust light transmit direction and control the lighting fixtures with less glare, this kind of diffuser more suitable for the panel light and batten lights.
Tips.4 Choosing Right CCT & Install Dimmers
Color temperatures range from 3500k to 6000k are easy cause glare, most indoor warmer color that perfectly use for work is <3000k. Install dimmers is easy for user to control the lighting temperature than switches. The smart system like Casambi is good work for adjust the lights.
Tips.5 Replacing Lights With An-Ti-Glare Lighting Products
The traditional light like incandescent and halogen bulbs produce high levels of visible light causing severe problem of vision conditions. Anti-glare LED products are designed for solving the visual problems affected by glare. It provide gentle lighting that from the intense light being shone them at a screen allowing you to see things clearly without hurting your eyes, and it’s easy for your eyes adjust and pay attention to read or something else. Hence, Anti-glare light is a kind of product that perfect for reduce the glare light, offer a comfortable and health lighting environment for your eye ease to do any activities.
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Conclusion
All in all, environmental and health benefits are equally important to the financial benefit associated with a good lighting environment. It’s seriously globe issue to take attention to solve the glare pollution that affect human health, nocturnal wildlife and ecosystems. It’s our duty to apply the measures to reduce the glare pollution as soon as possible.
