Gate Safety© GTO Inc.
One of the most important considerations you will have, when looking at automatic gate operators, is that of SAFETY.
The following information will help you understand what the industry in general, and GTO specifically, is doing about gate operator safety and why all GTO operators are systems certified by ETL to be in compliance with UL 325 5th edition. Quality and safety should be high priorities to manufacturers of gate operators, but it is your responsibility to learn the facts in order to protect end users and reduce legal liability.
Automatic vehicular gate operating systems provide convenience and security to the end user. In some applications, gate operators must use high levels of force to move gates. If a system is not properly specified, installed, used and maintained, serious injuries or death can result to someone in the vicinity of a moving gate.
Some situations that can lead to a possibility of serious injuries or death include:
> absence of controlled pedestrian access;
> absence of type B2 secondary means of protection against entrapment;(i.e. safety edges and photo beams. )
> reaching through a gate to operate the system;
> attempting to climb under, over or through a gate or the area covered by the travel of the gate;
> children playing on, or near the vicinity of, the gate;
> physical failure of gate supporting hardware, or
> absence of physical stops, which may allow a gate to “overtravel” or fall down;
> unsafe gate designs that have large openings, exposed rollers, and/or an absence of necessary entrapment protection devices;
> unsafe installations where access control devices or pedestrian access areas have been located within reach of the moving gate;
> untrained individuals attempting to adjust, repair or perform maintenance on a gate system. |
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