For new sites it should be mandatory to have good lighting on both sides of switch panels installed in switch rooms.
Ray,
We've all seen it before in not only switch rooms but in corridors that have a panel or switch-board installed along the line.
Look, with the cost of fluorescent lighting coming down since the introduction of HF ballasts and newer more efficient fittings, like the T5 fittings.
It would be a false economy to not throw a couple of these fittings at right angles on each side of the panel so that there were no shadows at all.
If that is all you have to do to provide good safe conditions while people are working on panels, why would you not do that?
