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           Important 2008 NEC Code Change

                              Mandates Tamper-Resistant Receptacles

               In all New or Renovated Residential Construction

This requirement results from a Consumer Product Safety Commission study that documented injuries in the home caused each year by children attempting to insert foreign objects into receptacles.

Why Tamper-Resistant (TR) Receptacles are safer than other preventive measures

• Once installed, they are permanent, offering continuous protection unlike plastic outlet caps that can be removed
• Shuttered wall plates add layers of material between blades and receptacle contacts.  Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has withdrawn its listing from tamper-resistant wall plates
• Tamper-resistant receptacles are certified and subjected to severe and documented testing procedures defined by UL
• Automatic protection whenever a plug is removed