This Standard provides a guide to the safe use and application of electrically operated equipment used in health care.

Although the Standard is concerned primarily with the electric shock hazard to patients and staff, provisions to safeguard against other hazards, e.g. thermal, radiant or mechanical, are included.

Measures required to provide and maintain patient and operator safety, including specification of the class of equipment and electrical installation to be employed for particular medical procedures, are also included.

Separate sets of guidelines are included as appendices for certain specific types of equipment where particular methods or potential hazards are recognized.

NOTE: Appendices are limited to equipment in common use by the broad spectrum of people in the health care industry.