Garage Door Opener Safety Regulations

However the vast majority of these older units are not equipped with infrared sensors or other external entrapment protection devices and thus do not meet today s standards for garage door opener safety.

Garage door opener safety regulations.

Under the existing law automatic garage door openers installed in residences are required to have specified safety requirements such as an automatic reverse safety device. 1 the speed of the door edge during the opening or closing motion shall not exceed 6 in 152 mm per second. Safety eyes are required for all garage door openers manufactured since january 1 1993 and the garage door opener will not work without the safety eyes attached and functioning properly. Electronic code of federal regulations e cfr title 16.

New safety regulations and technology requirements begin to be implemented and proposed. The consumer product safety improvement act of 1990 improvement act mandated that automatic residential garage door operators gdos manufactured on or after january 1 1991 conform to the entrapment protection requirements of the 1988 version of ul 325. Bush signs the federal legislation that ensures all garage door openers produced after 1993 must meet the entrapment protection safety standards as dictated in ul325 at the time. Ul 325 2010 standard update all commercial door operators bearing the ul label must continuously monitor safety devices such as photo sensors and or sensing edges.

Garage doors and garage door operators should be installed maintained tested and operated in accordance with the instructions contained in the owner s manual. The improvement act contains a preemption provision which states. Public law 101 608 the consumer product safety improvement act of 1990. Public law 101 608 section 203 f.

Those provisions of laws of states or political subdivisions which relate to the labeling of automatic residential garage door openers and those provisions which do not provide at least the equivalent degree of protection from the risk of injury associated with automatic residential garage door openers as the consumer product safety rule are subject to preemption under 15 u s c. Consumer product safety commission. Garage door openers made prior to 1993 are safe and reliable if installed tested and maintained properly. 2 the system shall be supplied with two additional independent secondary entrapment protection devices complying with.

This is a mandatory requirement for operation other than constant contact to close. Safety standard for automatic residential garage door operators. We have customers who ask us to mount the safety eyes on top of the opener or in a manner that by passes the entrapment protection the safety eyes provide. A receipt should be obtained for your records.

Inability to comply will result in the operator being limited to constant contact to close operation. Consumer product safety act regulations. Us president george h w.