I have not seen on this forum much about the mandating 30mA RCD protection for all sockets with the removal of the Risk Assessment exception in the AMD2 DPC.
From the employer's perspective, individuals may bring in their own equipment and connect.
Whilst there's not a lot of Class I equipment, unfortunately the ICT environment often involves a lot of wired-interconnected equipment, that provides fortuitous earthing.
A lot of offices are run by people who have no clue about the above, and a lot of portable equipment often is missed in portable appliance testing for one reason or another.
Correctly designed circuit on an mcb don't catch the situations where people cram in European plugs into UK socket-outlets, which omits the protective conductor connection, or where adaptors are used that somehow omit the PE connection.
Having said that, I'm not personally convinced (and I don't think, in the end, nor was the inventor of the device) that RCD's are the panacea of protection they are often held up to be.
From the employer's perspective, individuals may bring in their own equipment and connect.
Whilst there's not a lot of Class I equipment, unfortunately the ICT environment often involves a lot of wired-interconnected equipment, that provides fortuitous earthing.
A lot of offices are run by people who have no clue about the above, and a lot of portable equipment often is missed in portable appliance testing for one reason or another.
Correctly designed circuit on an mcb don't catch the situations where people cram in European plugs into UK socket-outlets, which omits the protective conductor connection, or where adaptors are used that somehow omit the PE connection.
Having said that, I'm not personally convinced (and I don't think, in the end, nor was the inventor of the device) that RCD's are the panacea of protection they are often held up to be.
