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What is the warranty on your products?
All products sold by PNA/Jessup will be free of Defects in material and workmanship, at the time of Shipment. If any product is found otherwise, it will be replaced. This guarantee is not valid should the Defect occur during installation by any party not Associated with PNA/Jessup.
Our exit signs are unconditionally guaranteed to luminate as per specifications for a minimum of 25 Years.
Are there any codes that require safety treads on stairwells?
The following is in EVERY PROVINCIAL BUILDING CODE;
3.4.6.1 SLIP RESISTANCE OF RAMPS AND STAIRS
1. THE SURFACES OF RAMPS,LANDINGS AND TREADS, A)SHALL HAVE A FINISH THAT IS SLIP RESISTANT,AND B)IF ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC,SHALL HAVE EITHER A COLOUR CONTRAST,OT DISTINCTIVE PATTERN TO DEMARCATE THE LEADING EDGE OF THE TREAD AND THE LEADING EDGE OF THE LANDING,AS WELL AS THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE RAMP.
This is LAW for every building
Fact about Safety Way Guidance Systems in Canada
According to The National Research Council of Canada's (NRC) Philip Rizcallah, Research Council Officer, Canadian Codes Centre, NRC Institute for Research in Construction, a Standing Committee has recently completed public hearings discussing the legislated adoption in all new buildings of photoluminescent Safety Way Guidance Systems, Exit Signs with green lettering, as well as a proposal for the "running man" (as opposed to lettering in English, French, Spanish, etc.) to be an accepted standard. The proposals have been accepted and, according to Rizcallah, "will be subjected to public review in November of 2008."
Fact about Luminance Testing
Intertek Laboratory has tested the Luminance of both LED's and PLM after 10,30,60 and 90 minutes. This was done independently for MEA Approval. LED's are calibrated at 5mc/m2 whereas PLM were over 18 mc/m2 after 2 hours!
Lets say that the lights have been off all night and then the following morning a power outage occurs just 15 minutes after the building is occupied. Will Glo BriteŽ Exit Signs have time to properly charge and guide people safely out of the building?
This question was raised at a meeting of the NFPA 101 Technical Committee on Means of Egress, and, after a thorough discussion, it was determined that the probability of such a scenario was extremely low. It takes about 16 to 96 hours in total darkness for a photoluminescent exit sign to fully discharge. If full discharge has not occurred, then the residual energy in the sign will
allow full charging to take only a few minutes instead of the one hour required by a fully discharged sign.
Additionally, 99% of true emergencies where evacuation of the building is required do not include the loss of power to the building within the first hour of the emergency. Even in the rare 1% situation, where there is loss of power within the first hour, therewill still be emergency lighting along the egress path and true total darkness will neveroccur. Glo BriteŽ Eco Exit Signs will utilize that ambient emergency lighting and be visible.
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