Solar Tower Lights Enhance Safety, Productivity & Compliance

Date: 08/10/25

As the days grow shorter, and even the midday skies are often dark and dull, site lighting becomes a major issue for construction sites across the UK. Poor lighting makes work difficult and even dangerous, risking accidents, project delays and even HSE fines if your lighting is not up to standard.

Yet with fuel prices constantly rising, providing traditional site lighting can be costly. Not only that, but running your site lights overnight using diesel generators creates unwelcome noise for neighbouring properties that could lead to your site being shut down during certain hours.

This is where Think Hire solar tower lights and floodlights really come into their own. Our advanced, environmentally friendly technology delivers all the lighting you need to ensure safety, enhance productivity and guarantee regulatory compliance, with none of the cost or the noise of traditional site lighting. 

In this article, we’ll take a look at the benefits of using solar tower lights and floodlights, and compare your options when it comes to environmentally friendly site lighting solutions from Think Hire.

Why Effective Construction Site Lighting is Non-Negotiable 

As a construction site operator, you have an obligation to provide safe, effective lighting for your team to work in. It’s not only a legal requirement, it’s also essential to protect your workforce and maintain the momentum of your project, so that you can deliver on time, every time. The key benefits of Think Hire solar tower lights and floodlights fall into three categories:

1. Enhancing On-Site Safety and Reducing Accidents - Adequate lighting is essential for the safety of your workforce. This includes ensuring that areas that are in shadow from the main light source are illuminated independently. On-site safety includes all carparks, walkways and access areas, and Think Hire have a range of solar site lighting solutions to keep people safe in every area of your site

2. Maximising Productivity and Extending Working Hours - With the sun setting before 4pm in December, the working day will be severely curtailed without the addition of site lighting. Think Hire offers a range of both permanent and PIR activated site lighting solutions to keep your workforce working around the clock if the job demands it. This includes highly portable systems for 24/7 emergency response and repairs.

3. Ensuring HSE Compliance and Adhering to UK Regulations - The HSE guidance on construction site lighting makes your responsibilities clear. You can read the details here, but in essence: ‘where natural light is inadequate or not available, artificial lighting should be provided’ and ‘where work will continue outside daylight hours or the building or structure is enclosed, artificial lighting will be required’. Failure to provide adequate lighting can result in non-compliance fines under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which will increase significantly if poor lighting leads to an accident.

Main Types of Solar Powered Site Lighting 

Think Hire offers a comprehensive range of both solar powered site lighting and portable lighting solutions that can be operated on solar, mains or traditional generator power. Each one includes the latest, energy-efficient technology to deliver both cost savings and environmental benefits. The range includes:

• ECO Solar Tower Lights – featuring four solar panels that provide 8hours of lighting, 7 days a week in spring, summer and autumn and 5 days a week in winter. Mounted on an 8m mast ECO solar tower lights illuminate 2400m2. 

• Solar Compound Lights – also powered by its own solar panels, the solar compound light offers extended operation thanks to a built-in PIR motion detector. Illuminates 400m2 for at least 11.5 hours, even at maximum brightness.

• K50 Floodlights – a highly portable, high-power lighting solution that can be used indoors or out. With rapid deployment by a single operator in just two minutes, it delivers 6000m2 of illumination exactly where you need it. 

• Baselight ECO – the only truly portable light system in the world that can produce 50,000 lumens with a power consumption of 420W, the Baselight ECO has a 4.5m vertical mast and illuminates up to 2,800m2 from a compact and easy-to-move unit.

Think Hire Can Light Your Site

Think Hire solar tower lights, compound lights, floodlights and base lights are all designed by experts to deliver maximum illumination at minimum cost to enhance your safety, improve your productivity and guarantee statutory compliance.

So don’t get left in the dark, switch on to solar powered site lighting today with Think Hire. Contact our team now for more details, including rental and purchase options.

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