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NEN EN 12978 : 2003 + A1 2009

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Current

The latest, up-to-date edition.

INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND GARAGE DOORS AND GATES - SAFETY DEVICES FOR POWER OPERATED DOORS AND GATES - REQUIREMENTS AND TEST METHODS

Published date

12-01-2013

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
  1.1 General
  1.2 Exclusions
  1.3 Door types and applications
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Requirements
  4.1 General
  4.2 Additional requirements for pressure sensitive
       protective equipment
  4.3 Additional requirements for electro sensitive
       protective equipment
5 Marking
  5.1 Electro sensitive protective equipment
  5.2 Pressure sensitive protective equipment
6 Information for use
  6.1 Instruction handbook General
  6.2 Instructions for the installation of a safety device
  6.3 Instructions for the use of the safety device
  6.4 Instructions for maintenance
7 Verification and test methods
  7.1 General
  7.2 Test specimen
  7.3 Test conditions
  7.4 Environmental tests
  7.5 Electrical equipment
  7.6 Enclosure(s) for electrical equipment
  7.7 Functional test
  7.8 Adjustments
  7.9 Sensor fixing
  7.10 PSPE operating characteristics
  7.11 Single fault failure
  7.12 Marking
  7.13 Information for installation and use
Annex A (normative) List of significant hazards
Annex ZA (informative) Relationship of this document with
         EC Directives

Covers safety devices for commercial doors such as rolling shutters and rolling grilles when used as doors on retail premises which are mainly provided for the access of persons rather than vehicles or goods. Applies for design, construction and testing of sensitive protective devices where the device is used to detect pedestrians including in particular applications, slow moving elderly persons, slow moving disabled persons and children who may be exposed to injury by power operated doors, gates and barriers.

DevelopmentNote
2003 Edition Re-Issued in July 2009 & incorporates AMD 1 2009. (07/2009) Draft issued in October 2017. (11/2017)
DocumentType
Standard
PublisherName
Netherlands Standards
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
UNE-EN 12978:2003 Identical
DIN EN 12978:2009-10 Identical
BS EN 12978 : 2003 Identical
EN 12978:2003+A1:2009 Identical
UNI EN 12978 : 2009 Identical
I.S. EN 12978:2003 Identical

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