scope:

This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the power operation of industrial, commercial and garage doors, and gates when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable as identified in Clause 4. All lifetime phases of the machinery including transportation, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping are considered by this standard. This standard does not deal with sensitive protective equipment using ultrasonic, radar, capacitive,inductive, passive infra-red and vision based technologies. For these types of equipment this standard can be used as a guide.