Garage door openers made prior to 1993 are safe and reliable if installed tested and maintained properly.
Garage door opener safety regulations.
1 the speed of the door edge during the opening or closing motion shall not exceed 6 in 152 mm per second.
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.
Public law 101 608 section 203 f.
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.
Inability to comply will result in the operator being limited to constant contact to close operation.
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.
3 a means to manually detach both door operators from the door.
The improvement act contains a preemption provision which states.
2 the system shall be supplied with two additional independent secondary entrapment protection devices complying with.
However this new bill goes a step further requiring a battery backup function that can work during a loss of electrical power.
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.
Garage doors and garage door operators should be installed maintained tested and operated in accordance with the instructions contained in the owner s manual.
New safety regulations and technology requirements begin to be implemented and proposed.
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.
All instructions included by the manufacturer with the operator must be left with the customer upon completion of any installation.
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.
Consumer product safety commission.
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.
Public law 101 608 the consumer product safety improvement act of 1990.
Us president george h w.
Safety standard for automatic residential garage door operators.
Electronic code of federal regulations e cfr title 16.
