Safety eye sensors and auto reverse features became mandatory on all automatic garage door openers beginning on january 1 1993.
Garage door safety sensor law.
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It is recommended that the safety eye sensors be tested monthly on all commercial and residential.
2010 california code health and safety code chapter 12 5.
Safety sensors are designed to prevent accidents caused by automatic garage doors which have led to serious damage to cars and injuries and deaths to people and animals.
The purpose of this device is to monitor the area under the garage door to detect people who might become entrapped by the garage door.
Following are some questions asked by dealers and installers about federal and state laws related to residential garage door operators gdo s.
Any object in the garage door s path that is around 6 inches or taller should cause the door to refuse to close as an obstruction has been detected.
Federal law ul 325 has required all garage doors manufactured include a safety reversing system such as garage door sensors.
Many of these laws changed effective january 1 1993 and affect the way you.
The traditional form of sensor is mechanical in which a.
Technically there are other devices that provide adequate garage door safety for gilbert scottsdale or phoenix garage doors but sensors are the most common.
To test the safety eye system start the door closing then use a controlled obstruction to.
Automatic garage door openers health and safety code section 19890 19891 19890.
The new mandate was to prevent entrapment and serious injury or death caused if a garage door closed on a person.
A on or after january 1 1991 no person corporation or entity shall manufacture for sale in this state purchase sell or offer for sale at retail or wholesale or install in this state a residential automatic garage door opener that does not have an.
The standard also allows a device known as a door edge sensor similar to the sensors used on elevator doors or allows for any other device that provides equivalent protection.
Further the safety eye sensors should be no greater than 20 feet apart and should be positioned within.
Ul in the entrapment protection provisions.
Consumer product safety commission.
In fact these safety sensors have been required by law since 1993.
6 inches of the path of the door.
For dealers and installers.
They are part of the automatic garage door system.
