Lower Energy Bills Are Just The Beginning of Energy Efficient Lighting Paybacks!

Lower Energy Bills Are Just The Beginning of Energy Efficient Lighting Paybacks!

What business isn’t looking for cost–effective ways to increase productivity and safety? And yet few executives realize that upgraded lighting provides a broad  range  of benefits in addition to substantially reducing energy expenses. The documented benefits include:

• Optimum employee performance.

Proper  lighting levels contribute to employees working better and longer. Older, more experienced employees might develop impaired vision as their eyes lose the ability to adjust to insufficient lighting. Improvements to help them and all employees maintain their effectiveness will have a real payback in value added to the organization.

• Improved safety.

Good lighting enables employees to adjust to changing conditions more quickly. The sooner a worker sees a hazard, the longer he or she has to adjust and avoid it. Well–lit workplaces are safer workplaces.

• Improved morale.

Well–designed lighting makes the workplace brighter and more attractive.

• Increased productivity.

Proper lighting levels allows employees to maintain focuses, see tasks more clearly and catch mistakes earlier. As a result, they perform less
non–productive work. Quality improves, and the cost of quality declines.

• Less fatigue.

Straining to see causes more energy use, stress and fatigue. Eliminating this controllable form of stress can heighten employees’ energy levels by reducing the amount of nervous energy expended trying to see in poor lighting conditions.

• Cleaner facilities.

Under dark, shadowy conditions, it is easy to overlook problems, such as waste  build–up  in corners behind furniture and equipment, and in
stairwells.

For  additional information on the benefits and paybacks of a lighting upgrade, please contact an Aelux Lighting Solutions Manager.

Source:
FacilitiesNet.com

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