Be Safe | Benincà

Picking up a set of screwdrivers and calling yourself a security installer or professional gate engineer comes with legal responsibilities. If you are designing and installing a brand new gate system, retrofitting automation to existing gates, or maintaining an existing system, it is your responsibility for that gateway to be safe and compliant with current gate safety legislation. This can differ from civil law or criminal law responsibilities depending on the customer and ultimate owner of the gate such as a domestic homeowner or a gate within a commercial environment. However, often the easiest responsibility to understand is the moral responsibility that the machine that you are being paid to create, install or maintain, does not hurt anyone. Consider yourself a parent with a small child playing near a gate system, you must offer a risk assessment to all work undertaken on electric gates and if you identify any risks, a sufficient control measure must be put in place to eradicate the risk or reduce the risk to a negligible level. Knowing the legislation that defines your profession is so important, what are you looking for when trying to identify a risk? Who is at risk and what is the degree of possible harm? Identifying the risk, combined with the understanding of the products you install, knowing what products or solutions work as a suitable control measure for each risk is what will keep you compliant.