BS EN 12453:2001

BS EN 12453:2001 specifies the performance requirements with regard to the safety in use for any type of power operated doors, gates and barriers intended for installation in areas in the reach of persons, and for which the main intended uses are giving safe access for goods and vehicles accompanied or driven by persons in industrial, commercial or residential premises.

This standard does not apply to:

• lock gates and dock gates
• doors on lifts
• doors on vehicles
• armoured doors
• doors mainly for the retention of animals
• theatre textile curtains
• horizontally moving doors <2.5 m wide and 6.25 m2 area, designed principally for pedestrian use
• revolving doors of any size
• doors outside the reach of people (such as crane gantry fences)
• railway barriers
• barriers used solely for vehicles.

Requirements for specific characteristics (such as fire resistance, blast-resistance, acoustic, escape route function, burglar resistance or thermal insulation, etc.) conforming to certain doors, are not specified in this standard.