The Safety Guidelines of Roller Shutters

The Guidelines

• All potential handholds should be removed from a roller shutter in order to prevent people holding onto them as the shutter rises and causing an accident.
• Roller shutters should be maintained on a regular and routine basis in order to ensure that any issues or malfunctions can be found and fixed before they become dangerous.
• It may be wise to install a ‘hold to run’ device that can control the height that the shutter rises and lowers to and can stop it moving if an accident was to take place.

Safety Devices

• The safety break is one of the most important pieces of a roller shutter and it a mechanism that is triggered if a roller shutter started to fall unexpected. After all, you never know who could be underneath, so this stops a malfunctioning shutter dead in its tracks. Whilst such instances are extremely rare, this device is fitted into almost ever shutter on the market.
• Sometimes accidents take place to the human operator due to a completely unrelated problem, like passing out, however unoccupied roller shutters as a result of this present an entirely brand-new danger. Luckily a dead man switch can save the day. This device is automatically operated if the human operator becomes unable to control the equipment and is called into action to stop a shutter potentially injuring another person.