Lighting engineers predict frantic fumbling when the clocks go back
Thatcham, UK, 18 October 2011 – The same thing happens every year: on the last Sunday in October, the phones start ringing at lighting maintenance company Quicklight. It’s only once the clocks go back one hour that many of the UK’s facilities managers, finding themselves in early-evening darkness, decide that it’s probably a good time to replace their lamps.One customer that now avoids this trap is Howdens Joinery. A few winters ago it became so dark in some warehouse aisles that staff found it difficult to read product labels. This threatened to become a health-and-safety issue, so the