Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 (Act No. 85 of 1993)RegulationsEnvironmental Regulations for Workplaces, 1987Schedule - Minimum Average Values Of Maintained Illuminance (Measured On The Working Plain) |
Location/Industry |
Place or type of activity |
Illuminance (Lux) |
Abattoirs(See also Outdoor areas) |
Cold store, casting & stunning pens |
100 |
Bleeding area, slaughtering |
150 |
|
Dressing, evisceration, washing, tripery and skin sorting |
200 |
|
Inspection and grading |
300 |
|
Boning, cleaning, grinding, packing, & cutting |
200 |
|
Manufacture of by-products |
100 |
|
Ablutions |
Wash-rooms, toilets & changing rooms |
100 |
Abrasive blasting |
Sand or other |
200 |
Aircraft manufacture |
Stock park production |
300 |
Drilling, sheet aluminium layout, template work, wing section, cowling, welding, sub-assembly, landing gear, fuselage, final assembly |
200 |
|
Maintenance and repairs (hangers) |
200 |
|
Assembly plants |
Rough work, eg frame assembly, heavy machinery assembly |
100 |
Medium work, eg machined parts, engine assembly, vehicle body assembly |
200 |
|
Fine work, eg radio & telephone equipment, typewriter & office machinery assembly |
500 |
|
Very fine work, eg small precision assembly |
1000 |
|
Bakeries |
Mixing & make-up rooms, oven rooms, wrapping rooms |
100 |
Decorating and icing |
200 |
|
General working areas |
100 |
|
Banks |
Counters (See also Offices) |
300 |
General working areas |
200 |
|
Blacksmith |
General working area |
75 |
Tempering |
50 |
|
Boiler houses |
Coal and ash handling |
75 |
Boiler rooms |
100 |
|
Bookbinding |
Folding, pasting, punching, stacking |
200 |
Cutting, assembly, embossing |
300 |
|
Finishing, blocking, inlaying and inspection |
500 |
|
Boot and shoe |
Sorting and grading |
500 |
Clicking & closing: Preparatory operations |
500 |
|
Cutting table & presses, stitching |
500 |
|
Bottom stock prep, lasting, bottoming, finish |
500 |
|
Shoe rooks |
500 |
|
Box, carton & paper bag making |
Corrugated boards, cartons, containers & bag manufacture, coating & laminating |
150 |
Associated printing |
200 |
|
Brewing, distilling & softdrinks |
General working area |
100 |
Brewing, bottling & canning plants |
300 |
|
Bottle inspection |
300 |
|
Building & construction |
Industrialised building plants |
200 |
Concrete shops |
150 |
|
General working areas |
20 |
|
Walkways and access |
5 |
|
Canning & preserving |
Inspection of products |
300 |
Preparation, kettle areas, mechanical cleaning, dicing, trimming |
200 |
|
Canned and bottle goods: retorts |
150 |
|
High speed labelling lines |
200 |
|
Can and bottle inspection |
300 |
|
Automatic processes |
25 |
|
Carpet making |
Winding, beaming |
150 |
Designing, Jacquard card cutting, patter work, tufting, topping, cutting, hemming, fringing |
200 |
|
Weaving, mending, inspection |
300 |
|
Dyeing |
400 |
|
Cement, asbestos, etc. gypsum, talc, etc, products & moulded goods |
Fiberising, mixing, shredding, agitating, flat & corrugated sheets & moulding goods mnf |
200 |
Pipe & pole manufacture: mixing, spinning, reinforcing, stripping |
150 |
|
Cement manufacture |
Control room, milling, conveying, drying, pumping, burners platform, coal plant milling feeding, bagging, bulk filling, loading |
150 |
Vertical control panel face |
200 (vertical illuminance) |
|
Ceramics |
See Pottery & clay products |
|
Chemical works (See also Outdoor areas) |
Hand furnaces, boiling tanks, stationary driers, stationary or gravity crystallizers, mechanical driers, evaporators, filtration plants, mechanical crystallizing, bleaching percolators, nitrators, electrolytic cells |
100 |
Controls, guages, valves, etc |
100 |
|
Control rooms: Vertical control panels |
200 |
|
Control desks |
200 |
|
General working areas |
100 |
|
Clothing |
Matching up |
300 |
Sorting, cutting, sewing |
300 |
|
Pressing, cloth treating |
200 |
|
Inspections, hand tailoring |
500 |
|
Cold stores |
General working areas |
100 |
Confectionery (chocolates & sweets) |
Mixing, blending, boiling |
100 |
Husking, winnowing, fat extraction, crushing, refining, feeding, bean cleaning, sorting, milling, cream making |
150 |
|
Hand decorating, inspection, wrapping, packing. |
200 |
|
Court rooms |
Seating |
100 |
Court |
300 |
|
Dairies |
General working areas |
150 |
Bottle inspection |
300 |
|
Bottle filling |
300 |
|
Despatching |
100 |
|
Die-sinking & engraving |
General |
200 |
Fine |
500 |
|
Hand engraving |
500 |
|
Dry cleaning |
See Laundering and dry cleaning |
|
Dye works |
Reception, 'grey perching' |
500 |
Wet processes |
150 |
|
Dry processes |
150 |
|
Dyers offices |
500 |
|
Final perching (examination) |
1500 |
|
Electrical goods manufacture |
Impregnating processes, mica working |
150 |
Coil and armature processes : general |
200 |
|
fine (instrument coils) |
400 |
|
Electricity generating stations (See also Outdoor areas) |
Turbine halls (operating floor) |
200 |
Blowers, auxiliary generators |
100 |
|
Transformer chambers, etc |
75 |
|
Cable tunnels |
50 |
|
Battery and charging equipment rooms |
100 |
|
Boiler front (operating floor) |
150 |
|
Between boilers (operating floor), stairs, & operating platforms, & precipitator high voltage chamber |
100 |
|
Pulverizers, feeders, ash plant, conveyors (tunnel, junction tower) |
75 |
|
Boiler house and turbine house basements |
100 |
|
Pump houses & rooms, water treatment plant |
100 |
|
Overland conveyor housing walkways |
50 |
|
Control rooks: vertical control panel face |
200 |
|
rear of control panel |
100 |
|
control desks |
200 |
|
Computer room |
500 |
|
Switch houses & rooms |
150 |
|
Relay and telecommunication rooms |
200 |
|
Nuclear reactors and steam raising plants |
150 |
|
Reactor areas, boilers, galleries |
150 |
|
Gas circulator bays |
150 |
|
Reactor charge / discharge face |
150 |
|
High voltage substations |
100 |
|
Fire stations |
Appliance rooms |
100 |
External rooms |
30 |
|
Forging |
General |
100 |
Foundries |
Charging floor, tumbling, cleaning, shaking out, rough moulding and core making |
100 |
Fine moulding and core making , inspection |
200 |
|
Furniture factories |
Raw materials store |
50 |
Finished goods store |
75 |
|
Wood machining and assembly |
150 |
|
Rough sawing and cutting |
150 |
|
Machining, sundry & assembly of components |
250 |
|
Cabinet making: |
|
|
veneer sorting & preparation |
500 |
|
veneer pressing |
250 |
|
components store |
75 |
|
fitting & final inspection |
400 |
|
Upholstery: |
|
|
cloth selection |
750 |
|
filling, covering |
250 |
|
slipping |
400 |
|
cutting, sewing |
400 |
|
Mattress making: |
|
|
assembly |
250 |
|
tape edging |
500 |
|
Tool rooms: |
|
|
general |
250 |
|
benches |
400 |
|
Spray booths: |
|
|
colour finishing |
250 |
|
clear finishing |
150 |
|
Garages |
Parking areas (interior) |
50 |
Washing, polishing, greasing |
100 |
|
Servicing pits |
100 |
|
Repairs |
200 |
|
Work bench |
250 |
|
Apron fuel pumps |
100 |
|
Gasworks (See also Outdoor areas) |
Retort houses, oil gas plants, purifiers, coke screening and coke handling plants |
50 |
Governor, meter, compressor, booster, and exhauster houses |
75 |
|
Gauge & tool rooms |
General |
500 |
General factory areas |
Canteen / dining rooms |
100 |
Cloak rooms |
100 |
|
Entrances |
100 |
|
Rest rooms |
100 |
|
First aid rooms |
100 |
|
Glass processing |
Furnace rooms, bending, annealing ovens, mixing rooms, forming (blowing, drawing, pressing, rolling) |
100 |
Cutting to size, grinding, polishing, toughen |
150 |
|
Finishing (bevelling, decorating, etching, silvering) |
200 |
|
Brilliant cutting |
500 |
|
Inspections: |
|
|
general |
150 |
|
fine |
500 |
|
Glove making (See also Clothing) |
General working areas
|
300 |
Hat making (See also Clothing) |
Stiffening, braiding, cleaning, refining |
200 |
Forming, sizing, punching, flanging, finishing, ironing |
100 |
|
General working areas |
100 |
|
Hosiery & knitwear |
Circular and flat knitting machines, universal winders, cutting out, folding and pressing |
200 |
Lock stitch and overlocking machines |
300 |
|
Mending: |
|
|
light goods |
800 |
|
dark goods |
1000 |
|
Examining and hand finishing: |
|
|
light goods |
400 |
|
dark goods |
800 |
|
Linking or running up |
300 |
|
Hotels & restaurants |
Entrance halls |
100 |
Reception and accounts |
200 |
|
Stairs, corridors |
100 |
|
Laundries |
150 |
|
Kitchens |
150 |
|
General working areas |
50 |
|
Inspection areas (engineering) |
Rough work, eg counting, rough visual checks |
100 |
Medium work, eg 'go-no go' gauges |
200 |
|
Sub-assemblies |
200 |
|
Fine work, eg radio & telecommunications eqpt, calibrated scales, precision mechanisms, instruments |
500 |
|
Very fine work, eg gauging & inspection of small intricate parts |
1000 |
|
Minute work |
1500 |
|
Iron and steel |
Slab yards, melting shops, ingot stripping, soaking pits, blast furnace working areas, pickling & cleaning lines, mechanical pump houses, slapping & large section rolling mill |
75 |
Moulding preparation, light section, wire and cold strip mills, mill inspections and conditioning, sheet & plate finishing, tinning. galvanizing and roll shops |
100 |
|
Plate inspection |
200 |
|
Tinplate inspection & pulpits (control rooms) |
200 |
|
General working areas |
75 |
|
Jewellery & watchmaking |
Fine processes |
500 |
Minute processes |
3000 |
|
Gem cutting, polishing & setting |
1000 |
|
Laboratories & test rooms |
General laboratories, balance rooms |
200 |
Electrical & electronic instrument labs |
300 |
|
Calibrated scales, precision mechanical instruments |
300 |
|
Laundering & dry cleaning |
Receiving, sorting, washing, drying, ironing, (calendering), despatch |
150 |
Dry cleaning, bulk machine work |
150 |
|
Hand ironing, pressing, inspection, mending |
200 |
|
Spotting |
250 |
|
Leather & tanning |
Vats, cleaning, tanning, stretching, cutting, fleshing and stuffing |
100 |
Finishing, staking, splitting |
150 |
|
Pressing and glazing |
300 |
|
Cutting, scarfing and sewing |
500 |
|
Grading and matching |
500 |
|
Libraries, museums & art galleries |
Shelves |
100 |
Binding |
300 |
|
Cataloging, sorting |
200 |
|
General working areas |
100 |
|
Lifts |
Car interior |
100 |
Motor rooms |
300 |
|
Machine shops & fitters benches |
Rough bench & machinery work, rough checking and stock parts |
100 |
Medium bench and machine work, ordinary automatic machines, rough grinding, medium buffing and polishing |
200 |
|
Fine bench & machinery work, fine automatic machines, medium grinding, fine buffing & polishing |
500 |
|
Extra-fine bench & machine work, fine grinding |
800 |
|
Materials handling |
Wrapping, packing, labelling, despatch |
150 |
Sorting stock, classifying, loading |
100 |
|
Milling (flour) |
Cleaning, grinding, rolling, purifying, silks and packing |
150 |
Wetting tables, product control |
200 |
|
Motor vehicle manufacture |
General sub-assemblies, chassis assembly, trim. shops, body sub-assembly, body assembly |
200 |
Upholstery |
400 |
|
Final inspection |
300 |
|
Spray booths (See paint shops & spraying booths). |
|
|
Offices |
Entrance halls and reception areas |
100 |
Conference rooms, general offices, typing & filing |
300 |
|
Computer and business machine operators |
500 |
|
Drawing offices |
500 |
|
Outdoor areas |
Abattoirs: |
|
lairage |
20 |
|
race |
50 |
|
Ash handling, precipitator & fan area |
20 |
|
Bulk loading / unloading areas where manual operations are performed |
50 |
|
Bulk loading / unloading areas where operations are performed mechanically |
10 |
|
Cool-water screens |
20 |
|
Fuel pumps |
100 |
|
Storage areas (excluding dumps) |
5 |
|
Water clarification plant & storage tanks (operating areas) |
50 |
|
Marshalling yards |
10 |
|
Main entrances and exits |
20 |
|
Transformer and reactor terrain |
20 |
|
High voltage yard, distribution & substation |
10 |
|
Gangways, catwalks, stairways, etc |
20 |
|
Conveyor structure |
10 |
|
Paint manufacture |
Filling, blending, dispersion & reactor platform |
150 |
Batch mixing |
300 |
|
Colour matching |
300 |
|
Paint shops and spraying booths |
Rubbing, dipping, ordinary painting, spraying and finishing |
200 |
Fine painting, spraying and finishing |
300 |
|
Retouching and matching |
500 |
|
Paper & paper board manufacture |
Paper and board making: |
|
Machine houses, calendering, pulp mills, preparation plants, cutting, finishing, trimming |
150 |
|
Inspection and sorting (overhauling) |
200 |
|
Paper converting processes: |
|
|
general |
150 |
|
associated printing |
200 |
|
Passages & lobbies |
All areas |
75 (at floor level) |
Pharmaceutical & fine chemical |
Raw material storage |
150 |
Control laboratories and testing |
200 |
|
Pharmaceutical manufacture: |
|
|
Grinding, granulating, mixing, drying, tabletting, sterilizing, washing, preparation of solutions, filling, labelling, capping, inspection |
200 |
|
Fine chemical manufacture: |
|
|
plant processing |
150 |
|
fine chemical finishing |
200 |
|
Photographic |
Safety light: dark room |
5 |
Plastics |
Manufacture (See Chemical Works) |
|
Processing: |
|
|
calendering, extrusion |
200 |
|
moulding - compression, injection, blowing |
150 |
|
Sheet fabrication: |
|
|
shaping |
150 |
|
trimming, machining, polishing |
200 |
|
cementing |
150 |
|
Plating |
Vats & baths, buffing, polishing, burnishing |
200 |
Post offices |
Counters |
200 |
General working areas |
100 |
|
Pottery and Clay products |
Grinding, filter pressing, kiln room, moulding, pressing, cleaning, trimming, glazing, firing |
200 |
Enamelling, colouring, decorating |
300 |
|
Printing - |
Type foundries: |
|
Matrix making, dressing type, hand and machine casting |
150 |
|
Font assembly, sorting |
300 |
|
Printing plants: |
|
|
Machine composition, imposing stones |
150 |
|
presses |
200 |
|
composition room |
300 |
|
proof reading |
300 |
|
Electrotyping: |
|
|
Block-making, electroplating, washing, backing |
150 |
|
Moulding, finishing, routing |
200 |
|
Photo-engraving: |
|
|
Block making, etching, masking |
200 |
|
Finishing, routing |
300 |
|
Colour printing: inspection areas |
500 |
|
Refrigeration |
Chilling and cold rooms, icemaking |
100 |
Rubber processing |
Stock & fabric preparation |
150 |
Dipping, moulding, compounding, calendering |
150 |
|
Tyre and tube making |
200 |
|
Curing and inspection |
300 |
|
Schools & educational institutions |
Stairs, corridors |
100 |
Class and lecture rooms |
200 |
|
General working areas |
100 |
|
Sheet metal |
Benchwork, pressing, punching, shearing stamping, spinning, folding |
150 |
Scribing |
200 |
|
Sheet inspection |
300 |
|
Shops, store rooms and warehouses |
Stair, corridors |
100 |
General working areas |
100 |
|
Soap manufacture |
All processes, eg kettle houses & ancillaries batch or continuous soap rooting, soap stamping |
150 |
General areas |
100 |
|
Vertical control panel face |
200 |
|
Edible product processing & packing |
150 |
|
Stairs, escalators & ramps |
General |
100 |
Storage battery manufacture |
General |
100 |
Structural steel fabrication |
General |
100 |
Marking off |
200 |
|
Sugar |
Manufacture: crushing, settling, evaporating, boiling, curing, drying, packing |
100 |
Refining: centrifuging, metering, filtering, condensing |
100 |
|
Planning, mixing, drying |
200 |
|
Grading, colour inspection |
500 |
|
Surgeries, hospitals & clinics |
Stairs, corridors |
100 |
General working areas |
100 |
|
Tailoring |
Hand tailoring |
500 |
Telephone exchanges |
Manual exchange rooms (on desk) |
100 |
Main distribution frame rooms in automatic exchanges |
200 |
|
Battery rooms |
100 |
|
Textile (cotton or linen) |
Bale breaking, blowing, carding |
100 |
Roving, slubbing, spinning (ordinary counts), winding, hackling, spreading, cabling |
100 |
|
Warping, slashing, dressing, dyeing, doubling(fancy), spinning (fine counts) |
150 |
|
Heading (drawing in) |
500 |
|
Weaving: patterned cloth |
500 |
|
plain 'grey' cloth |
500 |
|
Cloth inspection |
500 |
|
Textile (jute) |
Weaving, spinning flat, jacquard carpet looms,. top winding |
150 |
Yarn calender |
100 |
|
Textile (silk or synthetic) |
Soaking, fugitive tinting, conditioning or setting of twist |
150 |
Spinning |
300 |
|
Winding, twisting, rewinding & combing, quilling, slashing |
200 |
|
Warping |
200 |
|
Healding (drawing in) |
500 |
|
Weaving, finishing |
500 |
|
Inspection |
500 |
|
Textile (woollen) |
Scouring, carbonising, teasing, preparing, raising, brushing, pressing, back-washing, gilling, crabbing and blowing |
100 |
Blending, carding, combing (white), tentering drying, cropping |
150 |
|
Spinning, roving, winding, warping, combing (coloured), twisting |
300 |
|
Healding (drawing in) |
500 |
|
Weaving: |
|
|
fine worsteds |
500 |
|
medium worsteds, fine woolens |
300 |
|
Heavy woollens |
200 |
|
Burling, mending |
500 |
|
Perching: |
|
|
'grey' |
500 |
|
Finals |
1500 |
|
Theatres, cinemas & halls |
Stairs, corridors |
100 |
Booking offices |
200 |
|
Projection rooms |
150 |
|
Tobacco |
Primary manufacture: weighing, blending, conditioning, threshing, cutting |
100 |
Cigarette making: manufacturing processes, filter plug-making |
500 |
|
Inspection (catcher) |
500 |
|
Cigarette or tobacco packing |
500 |
|
Upholstering |
Furniture and vehicles |
200 |
Warehouses & bulk storage (See also Material handling) |
Small materials, racks, packing & despatch |
150 |
Issue counters |
200 |
|
Loading bays, large materials |
75 |
|
Inactive storage |
20 |
|
Welding & soldering |
Gas & arc welding, rough spot welding |
150 |
Medium soldering, brazing & spot welding (eg. domestic hardware) |
500 |
|
Fine soldering & spot welding, eg. instruments radio set assembly |
500 |
|
Very fine soldering & spot welding eg electronic printed circuits |
1500 |
|
Woodworking & sawmilling |
Rough sawing & bench work, sizing, planing, rough sanding |
150 |
Medium machine & bench work, gluing, veneering, cooperage |
200 |
|
Fine bench & machine work, find sanding and finishing |
200 |
[Schedule amended by regulation 4 of Notice No. R. 1754 dated 18 August 1989]