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Compare UK companies offering electric gate maintenance contracts. Check how many visits a year, what each visit tests, how quickly a fault is answered and what record you are given.

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An engineer writes in a logbook at an automatic gate entrance. — A contract is not a single visit.

Before the visit

Questions to ask.

Count the gates the contract will cover and note how often each one is used. Have the gate instructions, the last report and the declaration of conformity ready if you hold them. Know who on site can release a gate in an emergency.

How many planned visits a year, and what does each one test?
Will you measure the closing forces at every visit and give me the readings?
How quickly do you attend a gate that has failed, and is that time written into the contract?
What is excluded, and how are parts and extra visits charged?

What a contract should cover

The Health and Safety Executive issued a safety notice to landlords, commercial owners and facilities managers on 21 January 2011, after two children died in powered gates the previous summer. It lists what to check with whoever maintains your gate. Ask to be shown each of these.

Closing force readings: HSE says the company should use measuring equipment to test the closing forces.
Safety edges: Rubber strips, usually running the full height of the gate, that stop it on contact.
Light beams: Beams that detect a person or object in the path of the closing gate.
Force limitation: HSE says this is unlikely to be enough on its own to stop injury.
Fixed guards: Covers for places where the bars of a gate slide close to the bars of a fence.
Emergency release: Ask to be shown how to release the gate quickly, then tell your staff and other users.
The maintenance log: HSE says to keep one. Ask who holds it and how you get a copy.

At the first visit, ask about:

Closing force readings
Safety edges
Light beams
Force limitation
Fixed guards
Emergency release
The maintenance log

Between visits: check the response time written into the contract.

Source: Health and Safety Executive safety notice on powered perimeter gates, 21 January 2011. The visits shown are an example, not a required number or a promise of attendance.

Source: Health and Safety Executive safety notice on powered perimeter gates. Issued 21 January 2011 to landlords, commercial owners and facilities managers, reference OPSTD 1-2011.

A blank ruled maintenance log lies open beside a gate post.

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