About Lite-4-Life
Lighting the way to safety
About Us
At Lite-4-Life we specialise in the design, manufacture and installation of photoluminescent (PL) signage and safety way guidance system (SWGS). PL signage and SWGS have proven historically to save many lives in tragic fire incidents, and is predominantly utilised in the highly regulated industries such as marine, aviation, nuclear, gas, military and oil industries. Following the tragic events at Grenfell Tower in 2017, the Government, regulations and British Standards are thankfully recognising the importance of detailed compliant signage for easier egress in fire and smoke conditions, and the importance of supplying relevant building information to firefighting personnel when tackling a fire incident. Important building details may save seconds if not minutes in a seek and find scenario, whilst a SWGS may just be the path that leads someone to safety. We at Lite-4-Life refer to our systems as ‘the airbag in your car’ fitted to save lives, but hopefully will never be used.
Our Products: Quality and Compliance
Whilst many PL products are readily available online, a significant number of these are substandard and will not provide quality initial luminance or the longevity of light needed. Sadly, the majority of the industry still focusses on price and not quality, and the race to the bottom in the construction and compliance world is still evident, even after the tragic events of Grenfell Tower and the numerous legislation updates.
At Lite-4-Life we have worked with a photo luminescent chemist to produce and provide the most superior photoluminescent board available to the domestic market. Our boards are tested to a Class C+ standard, ensuring high initial luminance and sustained illumination for several hours under darkened conditions, meeting the requirements for safe evacuation and information for firefighting personnel in smoke filled conditions.
Current Legislation and Welcome Additions
Whilst we currently manufacture, supply and fit PL signage to comply with the Building Regulations, Fire Safety England regulations and the relevant British Standards, we welcome the very recent changes to BS9991 that states that a low mounted safety way guidance system should be provided within the stairway/s of new development buildings over 50m in height. Given these changes, we feel that this recommendation should be retrospective on existing buildings to improve life safety opportunities wherever possible.
Bespoke Design, Production, Delivery and Fitting
We pride ourselves on the period of time we can survey, manufacture and fit out signage to a building. From survey to completion we have completed full installation of buildings in 3 to 5 working days. With our fitting service, Lite-4-Life take full design responsibility to ensure that installations are effective, compliant and in line with all relevant standards.
A Proven Cost-Saving Solution
PL is not just about life safety, it can also help to reduce the carbon footprint for clients by utilising PL over traditional emergency lighting, or replacing current emergency lighting where PL will provide equal compliance. To illustrate the potential savings, Sainsbury’s PLC saved £1.5 million annually. This was achieved by replacing traditional back-illuminated exit signs with PL alternatives, thereby saving on electricity and removing the need for emergency light testing.
Experience Our Products Firsthand
Many of our potential clients find it useful to visit our facility to gain a full understanding of the products and services we offer.
If you’d like to explore this option further, feel free to contact Lite-4-Life via the contact link.
It’s Not All About Signage
At Lite-4-Life we have a wealth of knowledge regarding fire safety in general, along with a wealth of experience of the electrical Industry and the built environment.
We have found whilst providing our usual signage services clients will tend to lean on our experience for advice in other areas of fire safety.
We work with a number of partnering companies that provide fire rated doors, Secure information boxes, fire rated electrical covers, fire detection and alarms systems, and general manufacturing.
Being an approved NICEIC partner to AGA Services Ltd (Our electrical division), we also provide electrical services as and when required.
Contact us to discuss your fire safety issues, if we are unable to deliver on your problems we will no doubt know who can.
