Getting my head around PEN protection

[JohnW2]

People outdoors will also "virtually always" be wearing footwear.

Sure - but we were talking about garages!

I think the key difference between outdoors and a garage is the potential for water in sufficient quantities to overtop or soak-through footwear.

"Key difference"?? You obviously have not been in my garden after a significant fall of rain!

... and the difference in 'rules' (for EV charging) we were discussing appear to regard 'in a garage' as a 'safer environment' than 'outdoors', doesn't it?

 

[plugwash]

... and the difference in 'rules' (for EV charging) we were discussing appear to regard 'in a garage' as a 'safer environment' than 'outdoors', doesn't it?

Yes

It was flameport who suggested that the situation in a garage that being in a garage after a car was driven into it in the rain was "not really any different from being outside."

 

[JohnW2]

Yes

Ah - I misinterpreted your post to be saying the opposite of garage vs. outdoors!

It was flameport who suggested that the situation in a garage that being in a garage after a car was driven into it in the rain was "not really any different from being outside."

I must have missed that - but, if he did write that, like you I tend to disagree!