Common questions
Where do you buy the body-protected area sign, the 10 mA RCDs and the outlets?
From electrical wholesalers, and your electrician will normally supply them with the job. The parts have names worth knowing when you read a quote. The RCDs are sold as 10 mA medical RCD plates or RCD-protected outlets: Clipsal’s range is called Medilec (part numbers starting ML, such as ML2031RC10 for a 10 mA RCD outlet and ML2025RC10 for the double), Legrand’s is Excel Life Medical (part numbers starting ECEL10), and other makers have equivalents. A single 10 mA RCD plate retails for several hundred dollars.
The outlets themselves come in the standard’s colours: white for normal supply, red for essential supply, blue for UPS supply and beige for the cleaners’ outlet, which is sold already marked “Cleaning Purposes Only”. Each needs the amber supply indicator and individual switching. The green sign is sold as a 200 × 90 mm “Body Protected Electrical Area” sign by the same makers (Clipsal’s is coded SIGN/BPA, HPM sells a polypropylene one) and by safety-sign suppliers in Australia and New Zealand; make sure it carries the body-protected symbol, not the cardiac one.
The test label that goes on the sign comes from the inspector or tester, not the shop. This site has no commercial relationship with any of the makers named here; they are listed because they are the names on the parts.
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