In the UK, the fitting of BS1362 style three pin plugs to retail products intended for consumer use has been mandatory since the introduction of the Plugs and Sockets (Safety) Regulations 1994. These Regulations also repealed earlier legislation which mandated a requirement to provide wiring instructions in the form of a label attached to the cord. Once the fitting of plugs became mandatory the cable label was deemed superfluous.
On 4 Aug 2009, at 15:23, Scott Xe <[email protected]> wrote: In the UK, before the electrical appliances were required to be fitted with a 13A fused plug, all the user guides have the wiring instructions. Thereafter, the wiring instructions becomes unnecessary. However, the wiring instructions remain in the user guide for the reason that it is helpful for the users when they replace the plug with a new one. I have learnt that the main reason to have a fitted plug is to avoid the users to fit the plug by themselves. Is it true? If that is true, putting the wiring instructions in user guide seems to work against the government policy. Nowadays, most of user guides do not have it but some still remain to have it. Regards, Scott - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at <http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc> http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: <http://www.ieee-pses.org/> http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: <http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html> http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: <http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html> http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Mike Cantwell < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> David Heald < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]>
