Target group
The guidelines are designed to be applied mainly in Occupational Health Services, or by work environment consultants. Portions of the guidelines are intended to provide support for employers, such as supervisors with work environment responsibilities, individuals working with work environment issues, individuals working with HR issues, purchasers of luminaires and equipment, and those ordering Occupational Health Services. Safety representatives and individual employees also constitute target groups that can make use of portions of these guidelines. The guidelines may also be useful to architects, lighting consultants and lighting designers in enabling good cooperation with Occupational Health Services.
Written for a Swedish context
Note that the guidelines are originally written for a Swedish context and based on Swedish work environment legislation. Accordingly, several sections include references to Swedish legislation (for example, reference is made to AFS, which are Swedish regulations issued by the Swedish Work Environment Authority, available in Swedish at www.av.se), academic literature, and supporting materials available in Swedish. Readers should find out which rules apply and what kinds of similar support materials are available in their own context, to ensure legal compliance and adherence to best practices.
These guidelines include and reproduce copyright-protected material from CEN, ISO, and SIS. The material, in the form of tables of recommended illumination levels, is reproduced with the proper permission granted to the Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise by the Swedish Institute for Standards, which is the owner and copyright holder of the Standard(s) and sells the complete Standard(s) at www.sis.se.
Guidelines group collaborators
Hans Richter, Professor of Occupational Health Science, University of Gävle, Sweden
Hillevi Hemphälä, PhD in Visual Ergonomics, Senior lecturer, Department of Design
Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Jörgen Eklund, Professor emeritus in ergonomics, Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm, Sweden
Birgitta Hård af Segerstad, Ergonomist, Scania CV AB, Health & Work Environment, Stockholm, Sweden
Thea Berggren, Ergonomist, Varnumhälsan AB, Vänum, Sweden
Annette Stjernfeldt, Ergonomist, Previa, Sweden
Eva Jangdin, Ergonomist, Ergo Innovation Sweden AB, Sweden
Inga-Lill Andersson Hjelm, Work environment engineer, Företagshälsan i Västbo AB, Sweden
Liv Nilsson, Process manager, Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise, Gävle, Sweden