Hospital Grade Receptacles

[Kevyn O]

Are Hospital Grade receptacles required in a Dental Office treatment room?
Some of our offices have med gas some do not.

 

[LIM]

If the treatment rooms are deemed critical care areas. In a dentist office most likely not.

 

[waynebeach]

Med Gas

Med Gas

If you have Anesthetic Gases in the Dental treatment room I would venture to say yes......but I would check with the EE who submitted the Plans and Specs....

 

[Kevyn O]

Hospital Grade Receptacles

I was required by the AHJ to install Hospital Grade Receptacles in the Treatment Rooms of a Dental Office.
The rooms have Med Gas outlets to be used periodically on patients as needed.
The only area in the code that I can find that requires HG receptacles are by "Patient Beds".
517.61.C2 refers to Other-Than-Hazardous (Classified) Anesthetizing Locations.
I don't interpret the code for a General Dental Office to fit that criteria.
Your Thoughts :?

 

[roger]

You are correct but, out of curiosity, was any of the portable equipment in the office that had tags requiring HG receptacles?

Roger

 

[Kevyn O]

Hospital Grade Receptacles

The only piece of equipment that is present at the time of inspection is the dental chair which requires a HG receptacle.
We always install HG receptacles for the chair but not the other receptacles in the room.

 

[roger]

The only piece of equipment that is present at the time of inspection is the dental chair which requires a HG receptacle.
We always install HG receptacles for the chair but not the other receptacles in the room.

And IMO, if the chair is not present and he were requiring it for the chair he is out of bounds, that would be the end users call. Since the chair is present he could use 110.3 for his substantiation.

Roger