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Garage Door Safety
 Garage
door is the largest moving object in the house. These doors are
operated by electric door openers. Proper installation,
operation, maintenance, and testing of the garage door and
automatic opener are necessary to provide safe
operation.
An improperly adjusted garage door or automatic opener can exert
deadly force when the door closes. This could lead to serious
injury or death from being hit by a closing garage door or from
being trapped under the door. |
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Garage Doors Safety Tips
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Garage
Door Component |
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Safety Tip |
Springs
Your garage door's springs are the most important and
most dangerous part of your door. Springs wear out. When
they break, serious injury can happen. If you have an
older garage door, you must have your springs inspected
by a professional technician. If your door has two
springs, both should be replaced, even if one is not
broken. This will not only prevent any damage caused by
the breaking of the second spring, but also keep your
door working efficiently.
Springs can squeak and be noisy. This is caused by
normal use and does not necessarily indicate a problem.
Before calling a professional service technician, use a
spray-on lubricant at the joints. |
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Springs Safety Tip
Garage door openers include
an internal reversing mechanism that will force the door
to reverse when it hits an obstruction. The sensitivity
of these mechanisms can fall out of proper adjustment so
that the door will not reverse when it hits an
obstruction. Garage door openers with inadequate or
poorly maintained reversing mechanisms can cause injury
and even death to children who have been trapped beneath
descending doors powered by faulty openers.
To be safe, you should check your reversing mechanism
every month by setting 1' board or roll of paper towels
on the floor in the path of a descending door. This
simulates a trapped child. If the door does not reverse
after contacting the board or paper towels, call a
garage door technician to examine and repair your door
system. |
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Lift Handles and Pull
Ropes
Lift handles are attached to your door to allow you to
manually open or close a door and are attached to the
bottom bracket in the lower corner of the door. |
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Lift Handles and Pull
Ropes Safety Tip
Lift handles are necessary
to help you lift your door in the event of a power
outage. If you have a power outage and need to manually
close your motor-operated door, use the lift handle. To
avoid serious injury, never close the door by placing
your fingers between the door sections! During normal
operation, keep children away from the door to prevent
loose clothing from snagging or getting hooked by lift
handles and other door hardware as the door is being
opened by the operator. |
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Photoelectric Eyes and Sensing Edges
Photoelectric eyes are mounted about 5-6 inches off the
floor on both sides of a garage door. In conjunction
with the garage door opener, they send an invisible beam
across the door opening. If the beam is broken by an
object while the door is closing, the garage door opener
will cause the door to reverse direction to its full,
open position.
A sensing edge is attached to the bottom edge of a
garage door.
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Photoelectric Eyes and Sensing Edges
Safety
When this sensor contacts an obstruction during the
closing of the door, the opener will cause the door to
reverse direction to the full, open position. |
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