How to Keep Your Building Site Well Lit

For health and safety reasons, it's important that building sites are well-lit so workers can complete their jobs safely and efficiently. A mixture of lighting can be used in order to ensure all areas of your construction site are lit appropriately and meet UK safety regulations.

In this blog, we discuss how to keep your building sites well-lit from the entrances & exits, main working area or walkways.

Construction site lighting options

Smithlight – This is a battery powered LED light. It’s energy efficient and is the ‘greener’ alternative to the more traditional types of lighting which are halogen, fluorescent and incandescent lighting. It can either be used just as a single work light to light up a certain area, or in multiples to light up places like walkways. It is also portable so is ideal if work moves around a site. It features a unique base that allows it to be positioned on a flat surface but also can be attached to a tripod or brackets.

Plasterer Light – This LED stick light is ideal for providing diffused light that reduces glare for more intricate indoor jobs. It provides a bright white light and features 2 16A sockets so can be joined up to additional lighting if required.

Festoon Lights – These lights are used for general, low-level lighting. They are a very traditional way of lighting up an area, you can string them along scaffolding, fencing or trees. They have safe, weatherproof bulb holders and 10 bulbs set 2 metres apart from one another. The total length of them is 22 metres, ideal for lining pathways or escape routes. At HSS we offer LED festoon lights for hire or you can buy LED festoon lights here.

Fail Safe Light – These lights will keep an area lit for up to 3 hours in the event of a mains power supply failure, allowing plenty of time for site staff to leave the area until power returns. They feature additional power sockets so units can be linked together to create a chain, ideal for ensuring walkways are well lit.

Self Righting LED Work Light - The portable and powerful light delivers a broad, near shadow-free light that will help keep your detailed work visible whether its painting, plastering, or other decorative work. The bottom of each light features a rubber counterweight base so that if the light accidentally gets knocked it will sit back upright. The light also incorporates a 110V socket that can be used to power additional lights or tools.

Stand Floodlights – If you have any awkward and tight spaces within your building site which need light, these powerful fully enclosed floodlights would be perfect. They use halogen bulbs and can be used either free standing or hand-held.

Tower Lighting - These can provide lighting to a larger area and here at HSS we have options that can be run by mains, or by generator for when there is no mains power on site. You could choose a carbon-free, hydrogen-powered lighting tower that produces zero emissions at source and silent operation, ideal where noise restrictions may be in place.