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GFCI protection requires extra attention in a construction environment. The GFCI has no doubt saved many people from electrocution, so it would be easy to start thinking GFCIs will always protect you. By design, they should provide ground-fault protection. But they may not if you don't maintain them and don't test them before use. Consider the following example of poor construction site maintenance
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