Here is a prime example of how the choice of the wrong type of luminaire can create problems in efficient business management. Admittedly this is a situation where the original workplace has morphed into a different role, but never the less it demonstrates how lighting plays an important role in the efficient functioning of any business. In this case Baggage handlers sorting passengers luggage. The luggage labels are colour coded. Lamps with poor colour rendering properties, like sodium vapour, do not reveal the true colour of the labels. This means in an environment where sorting has to be done at speed, red, orange and yellow labels can often be confused.
Where work tasks require colour discrimination, such as fabric choice, graphic or printing workspaces even make up salons, luminaire selection should always prioritise the colour rendering properties of the luminaire.
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Baggage handling facilities at Port Terminal

Under lamps with poor colour rendering it is often difficult to accurately differentiate between colours

Notice the diffeence between the two “yellows’ under different lamps