Are your Commercial Doors compliant?

Commercial doors are not the type of product you can simply “fit and forget”.

Routine maintenance of doors and shutters in commercial buildings is an essential and part of formal legislation for health and safety. Depending on the type of door there are differing maintenance and safety checks that need to be carried out relevant to aluminium commercial doors, automatic doors and fire exits.

Door Maintenance

There are many responsibilities imposed on building owners relating to doors whether they are manual, automatic or fire escapes.

We often take our doors for granted. It is common in public buildings or the workplace, to find ourselves putting up with doors that are simply not functioning correctly.

Whether a door is slamming, sticking, failing to shut fully, failing to lock or other seemingly small problem might seem acceptable.

Most door issues can be avoided with simple routine maintenance. Virtually all hardware supplied with commercial doors have maintenance instructions supplied, whether this is for the door closer or for the lock.

The correct maintenance on manual entry and exit doors will provide solutions to small problems, but when these small problems affect doors designed to perform correctly in the event of an emergency, the consequences could be more severe.

The critical component on a manual door will invariably be the door closer and the way the door is hinged – whether this is on a concealed overhead door closer with threshold pivot or a face fixed closer and hinges.

A door closer must have an opening below 30N between 0 degrees and 15 degrees as required by BS8300 and current Building Regulations.

In high traffic buildings, simple routine maintenance of the door closing mechanism will probably ensure the entire door functions correctly, meet the fire exit requirements and make their overall use easier.

Additionally, failure to maintain door closers correctly can adversely affect the closing forces stated above and hinder the ability of users.

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Automatic Doors

Current Health & Safety legislation require that all automatic doors / shutters are regularly maintain and serviced by trained personnel. To ensure the safe working and security of all types of automated doors / shutters it is recommended that maintenance is carried out regularly.

Some of the key standards & legislation to consider:

Automatic Doors – BS EN 16005:2023 Powered operated pedestrian doorsets – Safety in use – Requirements and test methods & BS 7036-0:2014 Powered operated pedestrian doorsets – Safety in use Part 0: Code of practice for risk assessment and risk reduction – these standards state that regular risk assessment and inspection is required by the owner/occupier.

It is the owner’s responsibility to ensure that their Automatic Door equipment is regularly maintained according to the manufacturer’s specification. The owner is also responsible for ensuring that any maintenance operation is recorded in the equipment Logbook.

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EU Machinery Directive – automated doors and shutters are classified as machinery under the EU Machinery Directive. The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations, which brings the European Machinery Directive (currently 2006/42/EC) into UK criminal law, are primarily concerned with ensuring new and substantially modified powered gates and barriers are safe.

Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1992 notes that a range of equipment, including automated doors, are subject to a regular schedule of maintenance.

 

Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order 2005 states that is the employers’ or property owners’ responsibility to ensure that all aspects of premises, must be maintain and kept in a good working order. This is mainly applicable to any door which could be used as a fire exit or escape route.

PUWER Regulation 5, the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 insists that employees/ commercial facility owners have responsibility to ensure work equipment are in an efficient state, working order and good repair. It applies to all work equipment that is necessary to operate as a business, but not exclusively to automatic doors.

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