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EN 12978:2024 Standard

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  Keywords:

#equipment #document #used #protective #barriers

  Directive

Machinery (MD) Directive (2006/42/EC)

  Last Official Journal reference

Wednesday 13th of August 2025

  Description:

Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates and pedestrian doorsets - Protective devices for power operated doors and gates - Requirements and test methods

  Purpose

This document specifies requirements and test methods for sensitive protective equipment putseparately on the market as safety components to be used with entrance equipment such as poweroperated industrial, commercial and garage doors, gates and barriers, power operated pedestrian doorsand power operated pedestrian entrance control equipment.NOTE Requirements for the safe function of the combination of protective device and industrial, commercialand garage doors and barriers are given in EN 12453.This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the poweroperation of doors, gates and barriers when they are used as intended and under conditions of misusewhich are reasonably foreseeable as identified in Clause 4.All lifetime phases of the sensitive protective equipment including transportation, assembly, dismantling,disabling and scrapping are considered by this document.Whenever the term „door” is used in this document, it is deemed to cover the full scope of types andvariances of doors, gates, barriers and entrance control equipment listed in the scope ofEN 12453:2017+A1:2021, EN 16005:2023+A1:2024 and EN 17352:2022.This document is not intended to be used for sensitive protective equipment using ultrasonic, radar,capacitive, inductive, passive infrared and vision based technologies. For these types of equipment thisdocument can be used as a guide to demonstrate that such a device is allowed.This document is not applicable to sensitive protective equipment manufactured before the date of itspublication.

  Publication

Wednesday 13th of August 2025

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