In the unforeseen event of a power failure or the mains supply being cut, our emergency lighting system is there to ensure you’re not left in the dark; safeguarding staff and customers against physical danger and emotional distress.

Emergency lighting is a range of backup lights that will operate fully automatically in the event of a power failure. It provides sufficient illumination to enable all occupants of a building to evacuate the premises safely during a blackout.

Recent surveys from sources such as the Lux Review reveal that:

• More than 50% of emergency lighting schemes won’t work in an incident.
• 70% of building managers see maintenance as a ‘tick box’ exercise.
• 56% of businesses fail to keep their safety systems up to date after an internal refurbishment e.g. emergency lighting is not altered to suit a change in building layout.
• Maintenance providers reported 64% of visited sites’ emergency lighting logbooks are not up to date.
• 55% of survey respondents reported that customers are more concerned with initial expenditure than ongoing maintenance costs and that once the emergency lighting system is fitted, it is forgotten about.

Who’s afraid of the dark? Not us.

Installing emergency lighting is just the first step in providing building occupants a safe path of egress during power outages. Equally important is following up with regular, required testing and maintenance. Unfortunately, many premises and facility managers are failing this crucial task. Research from Hochiki, a leading manufacturer of life safety systems, showed that more than half of surveyed businesses are risking the safety of building occupants by failing to monitor and maintain emergency lighting systems, exposing themselves to liability for injuries or tragic loss of life in a power outage, fire, or other emergency

Non-maintained Emergency Lighting

Solely for emergency use, coming on when the power supply fails. Ensures emergency exit routes are lit.

Maintained Emergency Lighting

Powered by mains supply, designed to be illuminated continuously. A back up battery ensures that when the emergency mode is triggered, the lights stay on.

Energy Saving Options

LED lighting is an energy efficient option for emergency or general lighting, lasting significantly longer than ordinary fluorescent lighting – in layman’s terms, this equates to more money in your back pocket in the long term as well as experiencing that warm and fuzzy feeling that comes from knowing you’re helping the planet too. Winner, winner.

Maintenance

Annual services are vital in ensuring that your emergency lighting system is in full working order. A JB-EYE maintenance plan includes periodic checks to ensure both your emergency system and those vital back-up batteries are in full working order.

At JB-Eye we recognise that for schools, controlling who has access to your site and knowing who is in your school at any given time, is vital when it comes to safeguarding pupils, staff and property. Our fully connected access control systems can give you that security and the peace of mind.

It is essential we recognise the limitations of the traditional standalone systems employed by many schools, which tend to be limited to covering one specific area such as, a front door or a school gate. In addition, when multiple standalone systems are used, programming of multiple cards and fobs can be both a timely and arduous task. Meticulous separate records have to be kept for an accurate reflection of who has what card or fob. What’s more, losing a key fob or card presents a huge security risk, with the fob or card, having to immediately be removed from each system individually, that is of course trusting the records to be accurate.

A fully Connected Access Control system puts you in control, allowing you to ensure that only the people you authorise have access to the areas of the site that you want them to and at the times you decide. It can provide a quick, easy and above all else, secure, solution to all of your access needs and can be tailored specifically to meet the needs of your school, freeing up valuable staff time in the process.

Enrolment is quick and easy and needs only to be done in one location with the authorised areas being selected simultaneously and any changes becoming immediately active. A lost fob or card, can be removed centrally thus immediately securing all doors and preventing the fob or card’s misuse.

Widening access controls beyond the front doors, means that you have control over which areas of the building can be accessed by individuals and allows you to set up delegated access privileges for both staff and visitors.

Our Access controlled systems can be integrated with additional security to provide the option of taking CCTV snapshots when access is granted or denied to certain areas. Visitors signing in can be automatically be given access to certain areas while staff can use their ID cards to sign in and out of site.

Our Access control systems can even monitor and secure multiple sites within an academy trust, with individuals being given access to multiple sites using a single fob or card.

If needed we can extend our Access Control to cover the full student base, enabling you to track timekeeping and attendance information for students. This can be integrated into Health and Safety systems so you know exactly who is in the building at any given time.

Our Access Control Panels can also linked to the fire alarm systems, so in the case of a fire evacuation scenario exit routes are free to pass through unobstructed.

For a free access control evaluation please contact us for a no obligation site visit to discuss your requirements and ‘unlock’ potential savings.