Bobby Singh

Hi all,

What's the situation with having ZERO natural day light in your working environment at work?

I've been with a massive blue chip company for over 2 years now working in a test lab with no windows etc.

Just been reading that in Germany no working environmnet is permitted if workers are more 6 metres away from day light.

People at work including the manager has been complaining about his internal body clock not being right, feeling sleepy etc of course there could be many other factors for this but there is a general feeling that having no day light isn't helping.

Any thoughts..

Cheers
Bobby

R4N SS

iTrader: (6)

dont think you have anything to go on here.

we have an MCR broadcast room here with no windows - they have grown into freaks

Twellsie

iTrader: (1)

I dont think there are any laws about it in this country, At the moment I work in a office that has loads of windows to the outside, but we are moving to an office nicknamed the goldfish bowl as it has windows allaround it, but unfortunatly these windows only look out into the workshop

The Youth.

iTrader: (1)

the control room in my work place is within the blast zone on a top tier comah chemical site so it has no windows and 3 separate access doors to go through, the control room tech can be stuck in there for 12 hours at a time without seeing natural light.

steve

Cossy Mike

iTrader: (4)

What about shop workers then?

Like everyone in the Metrocentre or Asda workers etc...?

RichieST

iTrader: (2)

For health and safety there must be a required amount of light for you to do your job, albeit natural daylight or from a light bulb.

Even though we've got lots of windows at work, we had all our lights changed recently because they weren't outputting enough light!

nilrem

you need a Light reading in Lux. cant remember the exact minimum standard, but you should be able to find it on the web. that i believe is the only standard, nothing about natural light, just light levels. i think its around 1000 LUX or something.

nilrem

Work requiring perception of detail=>Offices, sheet metal work, bookbinding=>200LUX Average/ 100 LUX minimum

http://www.devonline.gov.uk/index/in...s-lighting.htm

hope this helps

CraigoScott

iTrader: (1)

whoever designed the lab will have designed the lighting layout so you can work properly at desk height i imagine, if your working in a lab anyway! i think you would find that the light at your desk height SHOULD be ample to provide you with enough light to work from, and they would have had to of done this with artificial light anyway, so theres no consideration taken for natural light

focusv8

They don't have underground trains, or shopping centres or mines or shops with lower ground floors,,,,,

There must be lots exceptions allowed to the 6 metre rule or you've mis read it's meaning.

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Ginge !

my office has no natural light so when i goe outside it proper fucks with my eyes.... its like comming out of a tunnel.....though its legal

Bobby Singh

Thats exactly how we feel mate

Thanks for the replies looks like nothing can be done about it..

Btw the bit about Germany was taken from a web site I'll put the link tomorrow.

Cheers
B

Psycho Warren

iTrader: (5)

cant be much in health and safety in it. We often used to spend 3/4 months at sea in zero daylight

focusv8

1. EU-Directive “Minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace” 89/654/EEC
The EU-Directive from the year 1989 requires under
“8.1 Natural and artificial room lighting: Workplaces must as far as possible receive sufficient natural light and be equipped with artificial lighting adequate for the protection of workers´ safety and health”
This requirement is binding for all member states of the European Union. The origin of the requirement was the Workplace Ordinance of Germany