Electrical Patient Areas
Overview
Leading technical committee's including Queensland Health developed AS/NZS 2500:2020 Safe use of medical electrical equipment in health care. This standard sets out a guildeline for the safe use of electrical medical equipment in patient care in Australia, and leads directly to AS/NZS 3003:2011 Electrical installations - Patient areas.
Patient areas are those where the risk of an electric shock hazard are greatly increased due to a procedure that reduces the protection inherent in the impedance of our skin. AS/NZS 3003:2011 lists the following areas to be wired as body-protected electrical areas:
- Accident and emergency wards
- Blood collection areas
- Chiropractice adn physiotherapy treatment rooms
- CT rooms
- Day procedure theatres
- Delivery suites
- Dental surgeries
- Endoscopy theatres and procedure rooms
- General medical and surgical wards
- High dependency wards
- MRI rooms
- Nurseries
- Operating theatres intended for non-cardiac surgery
- Patient ensuite bathrooms, shower rooms, toilets, etc
- Patient examination rooms in outpatients
- Plasmapherisis areas
- Plaster rooms
- Recovery areas or wards associated with operating theatres and imaging rooms
- Respiratory function laboratories
- Resuscitation bays
- Stress test rooms
- Treatment rooms
- Ultrasound rooms
- X-ray rooms
- Doctors consulting room
- Nursing homes
Our Services
Vue Energy is available to take the lead in the establishment and ongoing assessment of electrical equipment safety in clinical environments. Our services include:
- New clinic Electrical Patient Area design
- New clinic commissioning & certification
- Existing clinic with EPA certification annual inspection and certification
- Existing clinic without EPA safety assessment & gap analysis with the standards
- Existing clinic equipment safety assessment
- Evaluation of equipment in accordance to the clinicians accreditation body or insurance requirements