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I must have caught Seymour on a bad day !

Thanks for pulling the relevant quotes together, though.

As for wandering off the thread - some of the most interesting discussions have developed out of totally unrelated topics.

Long live diversity !

Right-on Roy!

On this quiet Sunday morning (and having just comes across it by accident), perhaps it's worthwhile resurrecting this ancient thread!

May I suggest that y'all start by taking a look at the initial post, then working your way through.

... then, has anyone cracked this one yet, or (indeed) have anything further to add?

My money goes on something like this:- any critical piece of kit that is not already battery-backed gets its own UPS screwed to the back (or the trolley, cart, whatever), set to give a clear (that is, loud) alarm whenever the mains plug is yanked out the wall. Hopefully, such a UPS need not be required to provide back-up power for more than a minute at most!

Forgive my ignorance on this quiet Sunday morning (actually I am working today) I thought ALL critical care equipment are backed up by a battery system and they should be plugged into the emergency circuit, here we use RED sockets to indicate the emergency circuit.

Once again I must gently point out your apparent lack of experience of the Real World here, Neil. Or perhaps you have just been lucky!

Meanwhile, you had better define "emergency circuit". One that is supplied by the standby generator in the event of general mains failure? That is, within ten seconds of interruption, inshallah?

And ... still a quiet Sunday morning out there (at this time of year), surely?

The emergency circuit is indeed connected to the emergency generator and it had better cut-in in less than 4 seconds not 10, quiet all month so far, getting on with the difficult jobs and re organisation of the BME.

There is no guidance from the MHRA on the colour coding of mains plugs. The nearest you will get to it is that sockets supplied by an IPS should be colour-coded Blue.
If it was possible to get some sort of agreed colour coding for plugs then it would be possible to put it up for consideration, so can we try to come up with a scheme that would be acceptable with most users, and I will try to put it forward.

Oh ok Bam so you saying that is no colour coding for plug point and only blue use to refer as IPS,
But in malaysia we have red for emergency(essential) and yellow we refer as UPS, and is applied in MHRA colour coding pls advice.

OK guys ... here we go:-

Let's start by establishing which colour plug tops are available.

For instance, those marked "Hospital Property" from RS.