SCHOOL LABORATORIES – GUIDELINES FOR COMPLIANT EMERGENCY LIGHTING
School laboratories would be classified as “high risk” areas due to their being scientific equipment, bunsen burners, chemically filled beakers/volumetric flasks etc.
BS EN 1838:2013 4.4 states that
“high risk areas require high risk area lighting to which would require not less than 10% of the required maintained illuminance for that task and not less than 15 lux.”