Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk 84 THE door industry journal spring 2025 Automated Gates & Barriers Automatic Doors and Gates: Standards and Means of Compliance Let’s not get lost in the ocean of rules! Over the years, the automatic door sector has undergone a slow and progressive technological evolution aimed at making these ‘special automatic machines’ such as doors, gates and barriers safer and more modern. Motorised doors are installed outdoors, so they are subject to all kinds of environmental conditions and as they operate in critical conditions, can be dangerous for the users who use and pass through them. As mentioned above, motorised doors are considered ‘machinery’ for all intents and purposes and, therefore, must comply with the mandatory requirements of the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulation 2008. On this occasion, we would like to remind you that the European Community has recently published the update of two important regulations concerning manual and automatic doors, namely the EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, which will replace the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC by 2027 and the New Construction Products Regulation EU 2024/3110, which replaces the previous EU 305/2011. Safe motorised doors Motorised doors must be CE-compliant and CE-marked. In fact, in support of the Machinery Regulation mentioned above, it is necessary to apply the Technical Standards that represent the ‘Guidelines’ for proper safety operation, such as the DHF-TS-013. This standard also contains instructions for carrying out a proper Risk Assessment as well as good maintenance. Please note that the dhf Standard corresponds in several parts to the European Standards EN12453 and EN13241. Among the people who use automatic doors, there is an important need for security, from property managers, technical managers of companies or administrators of public bodies to the end user. Safety and maintenance must be respected, motorised door owners can no longer ignore the responsibilities that arise from the dangers associated with motorised doors or gates. The obsolescence of existing doors due to age and poor maintenance leads to the inevitable structural deterioration, which is why 70% (especially of gates) are no longer up to current safety standards and could fail dangerously, causing serious injuries. Compliance and Instruments Microtronics has for years produced the BlueForce instrument required to carry out crushing/impact force measurements of motorised doors; without the BlueForce, it would not be possible to calculate the exact ‘force limitation’ as stated in the DHF-TS-013 standard. For at least five years, we at Microtronics have been providing a new, modern digital tool for compiling and archiving the documentation required to compose the Technical File; it is a cloud software called BlueForce Cloud.
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