Sectional door DIN EN 13241: Protection against crushing, cutting...

Hello everyone,

I am currently choosing a sectional door, and I have noticed at various exhibitions that the running rails or the rollers inside are sometimes not protected against intrusion at all; you can easily reach inside. Especially for those who have (lively) children and think about what a child's finger looks like until the motor finally stops when the finger is in the rail... :(

There is the DIN EN 13241 which provides protection against crushing, cutting, shearing, and trapping.

Are doors where intrusion into the rail is possible actually compliant with the standard?

Does anyone have protection against intrusion? Light barrier on the door? etc..

No idea - but practically considered: when are your children at the garage door when it’s closing? Never with us. Either we all go out of the garage, and I close it from inside (the house), or I press the button when going out. And I always go last, the child always runs ahead. Being in the garage when it closes has never happened?

I would say, somewhere you also have to think pragmatically. If you want to secure everything where children could get hurt, you have a lot to do ;)

Personally, they just aren't allowed to open and close the gate, problem solved. And if they do, well, nothing teaches children bad behavior better than pain, but maybe I'm a bit old-fashioned^^