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Fall-back protection related questions are the most frequently received enquiry to dhf Technical Department. Enquirers most commonly want to know when the requirement to have a safety brake came into force. The short answer is that there is not, and never has been, a specific legal requirement to have a safety brake on a vertically acting door - but it really is not that simple.
Fall-back incidents are quite commonly dramatic and violent in nature, thankfully most are near misses but where a person is under the door at the time, a fatality is the most likely outcome. There is a clear requirement to protect against potentially fatal fall-back incidents, but the solution is quite often not a safety brake.
In many cases assessing the safety of a particular door or shutter is not straightforward. Whilst an unbalanced shutter that weighs in excess of 20kg clearly needs a safety brake or an internally protected direct drive, other doors and shutters are more complicated to assess.
Find out how to make an assessment and what the law says about fall-back protection in this 1 hour session.
Free of charge dhf members
This is a dhf member only course. To book onto this course, please login to your membership account. Non-members, if you would like to be eligible to book future courses, please contact Membership@dhfonline.org.uk to enquire about dhf membership
