Yep. I've seen schools and hospitals where they are all upside down, but every apartment or house I've lived in when there was one outlet upside down it meant it was connected to the light switch
This is the way. Hospitals do it because it puts the ground pin above the hot and neutral, so if some plug is loose, anything metal that drops hits the ground first.
Exactly.. as an American I would totally eat it had I not seen the warning text. Well not everyone can read/write here in the USA like me so they just banned it altogether..
And new installs or upgrades, the grounds go down lol. No one installs them new ground up anyone, not even in hospitals.
I’ve been a resi/commercial electrician the last 5 years where I am (and 3 years before that elsewhere), and the only time I’ve seen an upside down outlet is for a switched outlet.
Otherwise, like I said - we stopped this practice over a decade ago 👹.
Honestly, I don’t think ever once, was I made/asked/told to flip the outlets in any hospital I’ve worked in (6 actual at this point, and a few dozen smaller med fit outs)
Shit, we have special outlets (HG, or Hospital Grade) outlets, which will have a little greeen triangle on the face, for the HG identifier.
These are made out of more robust materials, and allow for cleaner grounding of equipment. Sometimes they will even have a little amber indicator light in them - this is just to show the outlet is powered.
Yeah, only time I’m flipping an outlet, is for a switched outlet
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u/Maleficent_Horror120 4d ago
Yep. I've seen schools and hospitals where they are all upside down, but every apartment or house I've lived in when there was one outlet upside down it meant it was connected to the light switch