The Health & Safety Executive changed their regulations regarding electrical automated machinery because over the last few years a number of young children have either been killed or seriously injured from becoming entrapped within an automatic gate.
If you own an automated gate you must ensure compliance with the new regulations laid out in Automatic Gates Force Testing Health & Safety Testing to BS EN 12453 Machine Directive and BS‐EN12445 Machine Directive (Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates. Safety in use of power operated doors. Test methods).
Both these standards are available in full from The British Standard Institute.
Our company are fully committed to gate safety and every new installation is force tested by our trained engineers. We are CameSafe accredited and we as a company are working towards a clearer and safer way forward for electric gates and the regulation of the industry.
Failure to do so may put the public, your staff, and other workers at risk by the installations current design, construction, operation or lack of maintenance.