Indoor Lighting Standards

Indoor Workplace Lighting Standards facilitate efficiency and prime performance in the work place through multifaceted analysis and guidance regarding proper indoor lighting techniques. By acknowledging and incorporating the psychological needs of the worker, economics and energy considerations, as well as ergonomic design principles, these standards strive to outline optimal methodologies for installation and operation of indoor lighting. Recommendations for the maximization of visual comfort afforded by the conjunction of artificial and day lighting are applied to specific office settings such as circulation spaces, office desks, and screen-based tasks.

ANSI/IES RP-1-24

Recommended Practice: Lighting Office Spaces

Intended Audience: Lighting Practitioners, code officials, energy management organizations, building owners/managers, the general public. Intended Interest Categories: Specifier (US), Affected (UA), Public Interest (UP), Academic, Research (GAR), Government, Regulatory (GGR), General SME (GSME), Organizational (OM). Description: Lighting for offices and related areas. The 2024 edition includes updates on visual glare mitigation, Visual Displays, Prediction/Assessment and High Dynamic Range Imaging, updated control systems used in offices, and acoustic luminaires used in office spaces.

ISO/CIE 8995-1:2025

Light and lighting - Lighting of work places - Part 1: Indoor

This document specifies lighting requirements for humans in indoor work places, which meet the needs for visual comfort, performance and safety of people having normal, or corrected to normal visual capacity and response to light. This document specifies requirements for lighting solutions for typical indoor work places and their associated areas in terms of quantity and quality of illumination. The illumination can be provided by daylight, electric light sources, or a combination of both. This document gives recommendations for good lighting to fulfil the needs of integrative lighting. This document neither provides specific solutions nor recommendations for atmosphere or aesthetics created by lighting. It does not restrict the designers' freedom from exploring new techniques nor restrict the use of innovative equipment. This document is not applicable for emergency lighting. For emergency lighting, see ISO 30061 .

NECA/IESNA 502-1999 (R2006)

Standard for Installing Industrial Lighting Systems (ANSI)

This standard describes installation procedures for lighting systems commonly used in industrial and storage buildings.

ANSI/IES/NALMCO RP-36-24

Recommended Practice: Lighting Maintenance

Intended Audience: Lighting designers, specifiers, facility manager, building owners. Intended Interest Categories: Specifier (US), Affected (UA), Public Interest (UP), Academic, Research (GAR), Government, Regulatory (GGR), General SME (GSME), Organizational (OM).Description: Design lighting systems that will be easy to maintain and will optimize energy efficiency and maintenance based on good maintenance practices and careful product selection.

AS/NZS 1680.0:2009 (R2020)

Interior lighting, Part 0: Safe movement (FOREIGN STANDARD)

Sets out the minimum requirements for electric lighting systems within publicly accessible areas of buildings to provide visual conditions that facilitate the safe movement of people in the normal use of the building.

AS/NZS 1680.1:2006

Interior and workplace lighting - General principles and recommendations (FOREIGN STANDARD)

Provides general principles and recommendations for the lighting of building interiors to enhance the performance and comfort of those performing visual tasks. Deals with illuminating essential task details, using both artificial light and daylight, while controlling or excluding factors that might cause visual discomfort.

AS/NZS 1680.2.1:2008

Interior and workplace lighting - Specific applications - Circulation spaces and other general areas (FOREIGN STANDARD)

This Standard sets out recommendations for the lighting of circulation spaces and other areas which commonly occur in buildings of various types. It contains material that adds to or amends the recommendations in AS/NZS 1680.1:2006 and is intended to be read in conjunction with that Standard and with any applicable specific recommendations in other Standards in the AS/NZS 1680 series. The use of this Standard without reference to AS/NZS 1680.1:2006 is a misapplication of the Standard.

AS/NZS 1680.2.2:2008

Interior and workplace lighting - Specific applications - Office and screen-based tasks (FOREIGN STANDARD)

Sets out recommendations for the lighting of offices and similar tasks, including screen-based tasks. While the tasks may be commonly performed in interiors called offices?, they may also be performed in other interiors; for example, reading, writing and screen-based tasks frequently occur in most types of interior workplaces.

AS/NZS 1680.2.3:2008

Interior and workplace lighting - Specific applications - Educational and training facilities (FOREIGN STANDARD)

Sets out recommendations for the creation of good seeing conditions in educational and training facilities by means of appropriate lighting and interior colour treatment. To be read in conjunction with AS/NZS 1680.1:2006 and with any applicable specific recommendations in other Standards in the AS/NZS 1680.2 series.