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Socket covers in GP practices

keylevel

I was recently in a GP practice and noticed that they are using socket covers, so I decided I should show them the guidance that was issued by the NHS to say they should not be used.

The Fatally Flawed website links to the NHS alert that links to the PDF that the NHS issued, but that PDF has a "valid to" date of 30 June 2022.

Is anyone aware of this having been updated?

I've no idea why it "needed" an expiry date (probably related to some "document management" process).

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    If you want something that's current, the Scope of BS 1363-2:2023 (as with the previous BS 1363-2:2016 and its amendment in 2018) contains the following statement:

    Socket-outlets conforming to this standard are shuttered and therefore do not require the use of additional means to shield the current carrying contacts when no plug is present in the socket-outlet.

    That's straight from the horse's mouth, as it were - effectively, the UK socket-outlet already incorporates safety shutters, rendering socket covers used in other countries as unnecessary. Further, the statement also implies that UK socket-outlet is not intended for use with socket covers, and further the covers (that don't conform to other parts of BS 1363) might either damage the socket-outlet, or defeat one or more of its safety provisions (examples shown on Fatally Flawed website of course!

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    If you want something that's current, the Scope of BS 1363-2:2023 (as with the previous BS 1363-2:2016 and its amendment in 2018) contains the following statement:

    Socket-outlets conforming to this standard are shuttered and therefore do not require the use of additional means to shield the current carrying contacts when no plug is present in the socket-outlet.

    That's straight from the horse's mouth, as it were - effectively, the UK socket-outlet already incorporates safety shutters, rendering socket covers used in other countries as unnecessary. Further, the statement also implies that UK socket-outlet is not intended for use with socket covers, and further the covers (that don't conform to other parts of BS 1363) might either damage the socket-outlet, or defeat one or more of its safety provisions (examples shown on Fatally Flawed website of course!

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