Ensuring your electric gates are safe.
Did you know your gates must comply to UK gate safety legislation?
Many people purchasing electric gates are unaware of the legislation that the installation must comply to. If your gates are automated, you have a working ‘machine’ at the end of your driveway. Manual gates still need to be safe in the sense of being structurally sound and all automatic gates are classed as pieces of machinery, you have a working machine at the end of your driveway. That machine has to comply to various health and safety directives under UK law.
Safety must be paramount when planning & installing electric gates. Be sure you use a reputable installer.
Gate operators can produce high forces and create safety hazards.
The position and layout of the gates and motors should be designed to avoid impact, trapping, crushing, or draw on points wherever possible.
Suitable safety equipment must be fitted to electric gate systems as required to avoid hazards.
All hazards identified within a risk assessment must then be controlled by a control measure. All residual risks must then be documented, and a technical file of the machinery must be created.
Why Electric Gate Quote?
In recent years, accidents involving automated gates have caused a number of injuries and fatalities in the UK. Powered gates for use on private domestic premises must comply with The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 when installed.
- Beninca (the name behind electricgatequote.co.uk) are committed to promoting gate safety. Beninca are active members of the DHF and attend regular meetings to keep completely up to speed on all gate safety issues and legal requirements.
- Beninca offer comprehensive gate safety training courses to all of our electric gate installing customers at our UK headquarters.
- Beninca provide comprehensive documentation, to all of our installing clients in order that the end user can receive a fully documented record of their installed system and it’s components with a signed Declaration of Conformity from the responsible installer.
We are pleased to answer any questions from gate installers and end users associated with gate safety.
Know the law regarding electric gates
It is very important that the end user is aware of the legal responsibility of their chosen specialist gate installer to provide a safe system that conforms to the correct legal standard.
It is not just the installer or gate supplier that has responsibility for the safety of your gate system. The home owner is not absorb of responsibility. All parties, including domestic owners, have legal responsibilities under civil law (negligence) if something they do, or fail to do, leads to personal injury or damage to property.