I think you chaps are missing the point; By electrical safety testing all equipment held within a hospital, simply ensures that technicians ascertain a true servicability state of all equipment by carrying out visual, functional and electrical safety checks.
Otherwise, the vast majority of equipment would simply be left to rot until it actually breaks down. So it effectively becomes a safety blanket. Any minor bumps and bruises found can then be nipped in the bud as opposed to acumulating damage over time.
It comes as no supprise that very few items are ever found to be faulty. It again does not supprise me when some technicians take electrical safety testing to the extreme and perform build standard tests.
So in truth electrical safety tests beit BSEN60601-1, HEI95 - 98 MDADB9801 etc etc are used by managers to cover a multitude of sins.
