Introduction
Whether considering central or home offices, employees, who typically account for 80% of an organisation's operating costs, should have lighting that is functional, motivating and healthy.
Stoane Lighting, taking advice from the Good Light Group and sponsoring primary research designed by UCL, have developed The Workplace Light. Using an integrative lighting approach, The Workplace Light is a task light designed for visual needs, and non-visual needs connected with mood, alertness and sleep.
The Workplace Light
The Workplace Light is a task light for desk workers that emits light suitable for both visual and non-visual needs.
The non-visual needs involve a users’ mood, alertness and sleep. Some quantification of improvements in these areas can be found here in an in-workplace independent product appraisal.
ILP Lighting Journal, Workplace Lighting, June 2024
Visceral feeling like when you open a window and the draft comes in. Definitely noticeable. A boost of energy.
Engineered for exceptional durability, maintainability, re-manufacturability, and recyclability.
Constructed from extruded and machined recycled aluminium with an anodised finish for enhanced durability.
Fitted with innovative optical system to ensure maximum visual comfort and optimised m-EDI lux delivery.
The Workplace Light allows for the higher vertical illumination levels recommended by chronobiologists and detailed in the WELL standard section L03, with lower energy consumption compared with increasing general lighting levels. For a detailed white paper covering lighting design guidance for Health, Wellbeing and Quality of Light from the IALD European Regulatory Affairs Working Group, please visit the following:
Lighting Design for Health, Wellbeing and Quality of Light, A Holistic Approach to Integrative Lighting
Want to know more about Light and Health?
We have a CIBSE accredited CPD on this topic. It covers, with demonstrations, the following:
- Circadian rhythms
- Zeitgebers
- Effects of Circadian disruption including sleeping and digestion problems
- Alleviation with ‘healthy light’
- What is ‘healthy light’? A review of m-EDI lux (CIE-026, 2018) and the recommendations given by Brown et al in their 2022 paper: ‘CONSENSUS VIEW. Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults’.
- Putting theory to the test. The UCL designed, in-workplace research that led to WPL’s design.