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Document ID (ISN)33313
CIS number 80-707
ISBN(s) 2-222-02124-3
Year 1978
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Guelaud F.
Laboratoire d'économie et sociologie du travail.
Title Analysis of working conditions - 3. Lighting
Original title Eléments d'analyse des conditions de travail - 3. L'éclairage. [in French]
Bibliographic information Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 15 quai Anatole-France, 75700 Paris, France, 1978. 43p. Illus. 8 ref. Price: FF.15.00.
Abstract Designed for non-specialists, this booklet is part of a series devoted above all to the physical workplace environment. It contains data on the physics of light and the physiology of the eye necessary to understand, measure, analyse, and improve lighting conditions taking account of the visual tasks involved. Contents: light (characteristics and physical data); physiology of vision; standards and recommendations on lighting (contrast, illuminance, balance of illumination levels in the visual field, types of lighting equipment, work at display screens and binocular equipment); measurement apparatus and methods.
Descriptors (primary) illumination levels; artificial lighting; visual tasks
Descriptors (secondary) contrast; electric lighting equipment; light measurement; illumination design; physiology of vision; visual display terminals
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Lighting, colour and vision
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Non-ionizing radiation
Lighting and colour