Avaliação dos níveis de iluminância em bibliotecas universitárias de Curitiba

Abstract

Companies sought in recent years the comfort and safety of its employees in order to increase their production and consequently their profits reduced its losses and damages, meet increasingly stringent legislation. The study aimed to evaluation of illuminance levels in five university libraries and compared to ABNT NBR 8995/2013 and ABNT NBR 5413/1992 standards. Analyses were performed in two environments of libraries, which are cited in the standards, bookshelves and reading area, the data collection occurred during the night to avoid interference with natural light. The worker comfort with regard to lighting provides lower losses, fewer accidents, and increased productivity. Contact is that it is necessary a responsible lighting project in the libraries of this study, and some, according to the results, more urgently, others with more punctuality.