Main description:

This guide provides definitive guidance on electrical installations in medical locations, including earthing and bonding arrangements. It expands the information in Guidance Note 7: Special Locations.

This guide is aimed at consultants and designers of medical installations, manufacturers and suppliers of related medical equipment, medical electrical equipment service technicians and electrical contractors working in healthcare.

Contents:

Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Related reading
Section 3: Assessment of medical locations
Section 4: Risk assessment
Section 5: Review of existing locations
Section 6: Risks to patients: shock
Section 7: Patient environment
Section 8: Risks to patients: lack of resilience
Section 9: Fire survival
Section 10: Comparison of the BS 7671 approach with HTM methodology
Section 11: Safety integration level (SIL) rating
Section 12: Theatre operating lights
Section 13: Generator supplies
Section 14: Equipotential bonding: medical locations
Section 15: Medical location lighting
Section 16: Defining a medical location
Section 17: Group 0 design considerations
Section 18: Group 1 design considerations
Section 19: Other types of medical care
Section 20: Group 2 design considerations
Section 21: Inspection and testing
Section 22: Imaging and diagnostics
Section 23: Mobile medical locations
Appendix 1: Information supporting medical location assessment
Appendix 2: Common myths about medical locations
Appendix 3: Generator fault levels
Appendix 4: Supplementary information
Appendix 5: Example risk assessment
Appendix 6: Typical medical IT system loads
Appendix 7: Thermal effects on circuit-breakers
Appendix 8: Effects of inrush current
Appendix 9: Group 2 handover checklist
Appendix 10: Medical location supplementary test sheet
Appendix 11: Recommended frequencies for inspection and testing