Most contractors like to work in
good light. Yet a good number of
them spend eight hours a day on sites or
in workshops that are poorly lit by
unsafe fixtures. Not only are many
builders and remodelers in the dark
about the OSHA regs and National
Electric Code (NEC) standards that
apply to temporary lighting, few know
what lighting options are available
beyond droplights and cheap clamp-ons.
In this article, I've surveyed manufacturers
and found a variety of up-tocode
general-purpose and specialty
site lighting equipment, much of it at
reasonable cost.
String Lights
The most common type of temporary
site lighting is the string light. But older
string lights that use two wire strands to
connect each fixture are