Planned Preventative Maintenance involves regular, carefully timed inspections of your door systems, usually twice a year, and is a cost-effective method to avoid unexpected costly repairs.
Regular checks and maintenance of your automatic door systems ensures regulatory compliance and keeps your building maintenance costs to a minimum, as the risk breakdown or equipment failure are greatly reduced.
Planned maintenance prolongs the life of your automatic door installation, allowing any wear and tear issues to be identified and resolved, without unexpected disruption or a safety failure.
Automatic Access covers all types and brand of automatic doors with a range of cost-effective service programmes backed up by a prompt reactive repair service where applicable. Our packages start with an essential one-off annual safety check and service, to fully comprehensive options that offer additional visits, re-active calls & replacement parts.
The correct maintenance intervals for each of your assets will be determined by our experienced planning co-ordinators, taking into consideration your building usage and budget. Our service and maintenance options are carefully tailored to meet your needs. If further works are necessary following our visit, you will receive a report outlining costs for any additional works required to bring the door back into safe working order.
You can be assured, all our contract options fully comply with the relevant British and European standards.
The law for servicing automatic door equipment will vary according to which country you are in, however within England, Wales and Scotland, like most machinery with moving parts, under workplace health & safety legislation, yes, this is a legal requirement.
Under Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992 and the Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER), powered pedestrian doors must be operated and maintained to ensure they remain safe in use at all times.
This means that automatic doors need to be maintained in accordance with the guidance from the manufacturer, and this must occur at suitable intervals to monitor any wear and tear that may compromise safety. All checks must be recorded in a maintenance log book that is kept up to date.
In addition, BS EN 16005:2023 applies to the installation and regular maintenance of automatic pedestrian doors and their sensor and safety devices to help prevent accident and injury.
