Installing plug sockets in steel furniture.

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Just a note to add:

If the furniture manufacturer designs electrical items into their products, do they then, in effect, become electrical equipment manufacturers, with all the legal requirements that that would entail, such as declaration of conformity to product standards etc?

That's probably true if your furniture product comes within the scope of IEC60364-7-713!
The iet seem to think furniture wired into a fixed installation would come under BS7671
This from an iet leaflet a long time ago!

 

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That's probably true if your furniture product comes within the scope of IEC60364-7-713!
The iet seem to think furniture wired into a fixed installation would come under BS7671
This from an iet leaflet a long time ago!

I’m sure there was a debate I read a while back on earthing hospital type beds.