Automatic Door Maintenance Legislation

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Automatic door maintenance legislation.

Contact us toll free. The legal position is that powered gate systems are. We can assist you in meeting the differing and potentially conflicting requirements of the regulations in a cost effective way to ensure that your business is safe and legal. A guide to your obligations under health and safety law reference maintenance of industrial commercial doors and roller shutter doors the following pieces of legislation are particularly relevant when considering your legal responsibilities with regard to proper regular planned maintenance of industrial commercial doors and roller shutter doors.

There are 2 key pieces of legislation affecting the provision and maintenance of doors which you need to be aware of with regard to accessibility fire safety and general health safety obligations. Like most machinery powered doors and gates need to be maintained to remain safe. Industry on current legislation and standards from the door hardware federation and endorsed by the health and safety executive. Component parts can wear and fail sometimes catastrophically.

Automatic door technician check list must be carried out when servicing and maintaining automatic doors to provide the evidence that parameters are adhered too and safety devices are in place. En 16005 2012 which superseded bs7036 in 2013 requires that to ensure the safe operation long term reliability and working efficiency of a power operator pedestrian doorset including protective devices and safety systems they must be regularly maintained according to the manufacturer s specification. These safety standards 16005 7036 are always referred to as best practice in courts considering accidents and injuries from use of automatic doors. Partial compliance with a standard will not give automatic compliance with the.

This is accomplished by sending a test signal from the door to the sensor to which the sensor responds. Powered gates forming parts of workplaces or in common parts of residential complexes will be subject to health and safety law. For more information please see the technical bulletin adsa guidance on safety and legislation for automatic doors. Automatic sliding doors must be formally inspected for maintenance on a six monthly basis.

The first year of maintenance should be included in all. Rubek automatic doors accepts and believes in the spirit in which the standard is written and can state that all current rubek automatic door operators fully comply or exceed all relevant sections of the standard with the only exception being section 4 6 see above relating to full nata compliance testing for the reason above.