New Safety Standard for Automatic Security Gates Helps Prevent Deaths
and Injuries to Children
Press Release #02-023
Transcript
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- Text: Failure to Detect Obstructions (broken bones, hematomas, and amputations)
- View of unsafe gate closing while not detecting a person standing in its path.
- View of person trying to stop unsafe gate with hand - gate does not stop closing.
- Text: Improper Distance Between Call Box and Gate (broken bones and amputations)
- Various views of call boxes and gates
- Text: Exposed Controlling Arm (potential pitch point/laceration hazard)
- Various views of exposed controlling arm on unsafe gate
- Text: Exposed Rollers and Chains (potential pitch point/laceration hazard)
- Various views of exposed rollers and chains on unsafe gate
- Text: Spacing in the Gate Over 2.25 Inches (entrapment zone)
- Various views of entrapment zones in unsafe gates
- Text: B-roll of Gates that Meet Current Safety Standards
- Text: Proper Distance Between Call Box and Gate
- Views of car driving through gate with proper distance between call box and gate
- Text: Gate with Proper Signage
- Various views of proper gate signs
- Text: Elimination of Gaps over 2.25 Inches
- View of safe gate gaps
- End