Standards for Industrial Power Sockets

Standards and local electrical regulations vary from country to country (and sometimes also within that country). What country is the installation in?

Hello jsuresh kumar:

Sockets of whatever kind in a Factory situation should always run in a conduit, no loose wires whatsoever! The height depends on what the socket is used for and where it is in the building.

1) Fitting places:

Walls, vertical steel RSJs, sides of machines. The conduit should be run above where it can easily touched. And each socket or group of sockets should have conduit dropping down to them, and is fixed to the machine or wall. It must not run along the floor where people are moving or working and, it should always run along the frame of the building. Sockets and/or conduit should not be fitted close enoughj to be snagged by items carried on conveyer belts and other automatic machinery'

2) Fitting with ref to vehicles:

The sockets and any connections should be around chest high in general. But care should be taken when allowing for vehicles, trucks, Fork Lifts etc, which move to carry pallets. All conduit should be flush to the wall or run along the frame of the building so any movement by hand trucks and small vans and fork lift trucks should not pull, break, or crush a conduit/cable, or any connectors. In loading areas any sockets etc should be fitted, so the fork lift truck cannot rip them from the wall.

3) Safety:

To prevent any chance of water or moisture ingress, all electrics should be fitted away from any windows, roof-lights, (window in the roof), guttering, internal drainage pipes and or sewer pipes, basins, toilets and any tap/s fitted in the main factory to allow water hose use. Any conduit should be run above windows.

4) Safety around people:

There should be no chance rain or leaks, including spilled liquids, beverages, and any other industrial liquid, of reaching and running into any socket.

5) Fittings around work spaces:

Any sockets etc should be 60 CM above any bench or assembly area, (approximately shoulder height). This is to prevent any liquid of any kind splashing a socket or being spilled over a socket. It also helps prevent anyone tripping or catching any tool cable plugged into the socket. Any socket fitted on or around a machine to power that machine, and/or to provide a power point should be placed on vertical surfaces above chest height if possible. And thought should be given not to fit any socket where it can be used as a 'hanger', or a 'cup holder', such as when the power is run to a machine or appliance.

These are not Standards from any rules. They are for safety and common sense use of power in a factory environment.

This may be a little more than the OP asked but I tried to cover all situations.

Standards seem to vary a lot from place to place, country to country. Some factories are very busy with lots of people and automatic machines around. Others are more like warehouses.

Take care and good luck!...............