Cooperating organisations |
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Acknowledgements |
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Preface |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Statutory Regulations and The Wiring Regulations |
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1.1 Statutory Regulations |
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1.2 The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 as amended |
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1.3 The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 as amended |
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1.4 The Building Regulations |
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1.5 The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations |
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Chapter 2 Electric shock and protective measures |
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2.2 Physiology of electric shock |
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2.3 Protective provisions and protective measures |
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Chapter 3 Provisions for basic protection |
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3.3 Barriers or enclosures |
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Chapter 4 Automatic disconnection of supply |
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4.1 The protective provisions |
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4.3 Automatic disconnection of supply |
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4.4 TN system, requirements for disconnection |
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4.5 TT system, requirements for disconnection |
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4.7 Functional extra-low voltage (FELV) |
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4.8 Reduced low voltage systems |
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4.9 Additional protection by residual current devices |
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4.10 Additional protection by supplementary equipotential bonding |
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4.11 Where automatic disconnection is not required for shock protection |
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4.12 Highway power supplies |
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Chapter 5 Double or reinforced insulation |
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5.1 The protective provisions |
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5.2 Effective supervision of installations and circuits |
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5.3 Circuit protective conductors |
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Chapter 6 Electrical separation |
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6.1 The protective provisions |
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6.2 Electrical separation applied to one item of equipment |
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6.3 Electrical separation for the supply to more than one item of current-using equipment |
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Chapter 7 Extra-low voltage provided by SELV or PELV |
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7.1 The protective provisions |
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7.3 SELV (separated extra-low voltage) |
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7.4 PELV (protective extra-low voltage) |
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7.5 Calculation of loop impedance in PELV (and FELV) circuits |
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7.6 SELV and PELV requirements in Part 7 of BS 7671 |
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Chapter 8 Additional protection |
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8.1 The protective provisions |
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8.2 Additional protection by residual current devices (RCDs) |
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8.3 Additional protection by supplementary equipotential bonding |
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Chapter 9 Obstacles and placing out of reach |
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9.2 The protective provisions |
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Chapter 10 Protective measures for application only where the installation is controlled or under the supervision of skilled or instructed persons |
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10.1 Protective measures and provisions |
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10.2 Non-conducting location |
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10.3 Earth-free local equipotential bonding |
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10.4 Electrical separation for the supply to more than one item of current-using equipment |
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11.5 Main earthing terminal or bar |
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Chapter 12 Circuit protective conductors |
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12.2 Sizing of circuit protective conductors |
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12.3 Provision of circuit protective conductors |
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12.4 High protective conductor currents |
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Chapter 13 Protective equipotential bonding |
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13.2 Main protective equipotential bonding |
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13.3 Supplementary equipotential bonding |
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13.4 Example of supplementary bonding |
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13.5 Extraneous-conductive-parts |
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Chapter 14 Protective multiple earthing |
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14.3 Potential difference within buildings |
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14.4 Potential difference outside buildings |
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14.5 Additional earth electrode for PME supplies |
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Chapter 15 Special installations or locations |
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15.2 Regulation numbering |
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15.3 Supplementary and modified requirements |
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Chapter 16 Cables installed in walls, floors, ceilings and partitions |
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16.1 A cable installed under a floor or above a ceiling |
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16.2 A cable installed in a wall or partition |
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16.3 A cable installed in a wall or partition with metal parts |
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Appendix A Maximum permissible measured earth fault loop impedance |
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Appendix B Resistance of copper and aluminium conductors |
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Index |
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