I (again)agree with you, however a Pratice Manager at a Surgery has to get their equipment electrically tested and all they need to claim some brownie points is a PASSED ELECTRICAL SAFETY TEST label on the equipment and the fancy certificate. At present the only requirement is for portable electrical equipment to meet the specification of the Portable Appliance Test, class 1, 2 and occasionally 3, with no consideration of the further medical classes B, BF, or CF. I argue that a piece of medical equipment should not have a label stating PASSED ELECTRICAL SAFETY TEST unless it has indeed been tested to an approved standard such as IEC 62353 as do most EBME technicians but it appears we are in somewhat of a minority due to no one in authority caring.
