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1.1 This Standard applies to grounding and bonding equipment for use in accordance with CSA C22.1, Canadian Electrical Code, Part I in Canada, the National Electrical Code, NFPA 70, in the United States, or the Standard for Electrical Installations, NOM-001-SEDE, in Mexico

1.2  This Standard applies to the following grounding and bonding equipment:

a) ground clamps, bonding devices, grounding bushings, water-meter shunts, grounding electrodes, and the like used in a grounding system;

b) equipment for making electrical connections between

i) the grounding conductors used in electrical power systems, non-current-carrying metal parts of electrical equipment, armored grounding wires, metal raceways, and the like; and

ii) grounding electrodes;

c) equipment for making electrical connections between

i) the grounding conductors used in telecommunications systems such as telephone, radio, CATV, network power broadband, and the like; and

ii) grounding electrodes;

d) hospital grounding jacks and mating grounding cord assemblies (for Mexico and the United States, see Annex A);

e) bonding devices for making electrical connections between

i) the hex head of a brass fitting used in a piping system in accordance with 250.104 of NFPA 70; and

ii) the grounding electrodes; and

f) intersystem bonding terminations for connecting intersystem bonding and grounding conductors for other systems in accordance with NFPA 70. and

g) equipment for making electrical connections between

i) grounding and bonding conductors; and

ii) bonding conductors used for equipotential bonding at swimming pools, spas, hot tubs, bodies of water, agricultural buildings, information technology equipment rooms, and medical facilities.

Notes:

1) In Canada, “hospital grounding jacks” are not defined in CSA C22.1, Canadian Electrical Code, Part I.

2) In Canada, ″mating ground cord assemblies″ are covered in CSA C22.2 No. 21 and CSA C22.2 No. 42.

3) In Canada, bonding conductors may be considered grounding conductors in accordance with the CSA C22.1, Canadian Electrical Code, Part 1.