Bonding metalic portable items.

[SMB]

Hi, Im hoping someone can help me here with a regulation number, or a direction where to find the regulation inregard to my question....

In an industrial sized kitchen there is a console in the middle, this supplies most of the equiptment via 13amp socket outlets. The equiptment that is supplied is plugged in. This is okay and I understand it.

What has happened, at an earlier date to me arriving, is every piece of plugged in equiptment has been supplimentary bonded to the metalic consel.

The problem is that all the plugged in equiptment needs to be moved every day to clean below it. This has caused the supplymentary bonding to disconntect (snapped, broken), its broken everytime the equiptment is moved.

The equiptment is not stationary, mostly its on wheels, its stainless steel, as is the consel which is feeding it via socket outlets (water tight socket outlets)..

I was of the thought that this type of equiptment did not need to be supplimentary bonded to the metal around it (ie the consel it was fed from.) I think im right with this.......but I need to show this in writing....BRB...or BGB.

It would be great if you could help me with this.


I really need to show what the score is with this, I need to find a reg number.


thanks.

 

[SMB]

Im fairly sure that my question does not relate to Section 717 of the BRB.

Its moveable equiptment which is plugged into stationary equiptment in a kitchen.

I would love to prove this supplimentry bonding isn't needed.

Im sure it isn't.

I need a reg number.










Gasp.


Ta.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

I think you are correct. I have worked in many workshops etc with steel workbenches which are bonded, but the power tools are not bonded to it with the exception of bench drills and the like which are bolted down anyway. but bonding portable equipment to them doesn't make sense to me, and i have never seen it either. The equipment should be PAT tested anyway.

But all that said i will stand corrected if someone else begs to differ.

Cheers......Howard

 

[Adam W]

Didn't we already have this discussion on a different sub-forum?