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No matter where you operate - whether from a massive warehouse to a production plant, recognize that safety doesn't just come around once a month or a year. Each machine, each operation, each entrance - your loading dock doors, your warehouse doors, your production facility doors - all present ongoing hazards to your team every day. With exposed mechanisms, pinch points, and the potential for doors to fail, an unnoticed security vulnerability could become an obvious danger. A vertical lifting door has been designed to combat these hazards from your facility. Here at Seppes Doors, we have spent the last 15 years designing innovative door systems that would keep our customers and their employees safe from any possible dangers when it comes to the facility entrances. This is proven by our CE, SGS, and ISO 9001 certificates. And so we have designed some unique safety features in the vertical lifting door that make sure of your daily safety as well as the safety of your facility assets. Here are four ways your vertical lifting door will improve your workplace safety daily:
Elimination of Swing Hazards and Floor-Level Obstacles
Traditional hinged and swing-doors carry several potential hazards; they have a big swinging area that can easily injure an employee who may be walking near the entrance, they may also come into contact with forklift or even your stacks. Their bottom swing portion also creates the danger of an employee tripping over the doors while working and possibly getting their foot or fingers caught between the bottom door level and the ground level, which would create much trouble for your employees. Since a vertical lifting door goes up directly to your ceiling, you will completely eliminate this problem as it does not extend itself into the working space nor does it pose a threat of being a tripping hazard; your employee will feel safe with this door system as well as be able to maneuver their ways around without worry. Seppes Doors make sure that vertical lifting doors are installed with a flush mount on their guides and low profile bottom astragal which is why they have designed their bottom section in such a way that would prevent your employee from being at danger in this aspect. A safe door means a safe workplace, and this vertical lifting door does that for you!
Advanced Anti-Drop and Anti-Crush Mechanisms
A common nightmare for any overhead door user is that it could fall at any time and injure employees or damage assets which would create a costly problem. Fortunately, for a vertical lifting door, this is no longer an issue as there are multiple fail safe measures which have been put into play. First, with tension spring technology that has high-tension balanced springs on both ends which come with spring break device that is to secure the doors from dropping from a great height if a break were to occur. Second, with the use of its electric motor, the door operator comes with brake device to automatically apply force onto the door operator’s drum if power were to cut off, which will hold the door steady on the position where it stops. Third, the door comes standard with a bottom safety edge. If the bottom of the closing door makes physical contact with a person or object, the system instantly detects it and automatically reverses the door back to the fully open position. Seppes Doors have put these fail safe devices in accordance with the latest European standard in door safety, tested in our 30,000 sqm facility, backed by over 15 million USD in product liability insurance, making our vertical lifting door system reliable to work with at any condition.
Clear Vibility and Smart Sensor Integration
The doors must have the ability to allow the user to have a clear visibility into what is on the other side to anticipate what or who may be on that other side when using the doors. A vertical lifting door has vision panels that can be made from highly-resistant shatterproof materials which allow visibility. Not only do the panels provide a wide angle view to the users, there are smart sensors that can be embedded within the control unit. The motion sensors and even radars and induction loop detectors can initiate the opening of the door automatically upon detection of a forklift approaching so there would not be a need for employees to stop or even leave their vehicles. The sensors can also detect vehicles and ensure that only one enters or exits through the door at a time, hence reducing traffic on your entry ways and also preventing crashes in between moving vehicles when going in and out of your facility. Also warning lights can be made with flashing capability together with alarms which will announce a vertical lifting door in motion and the closing of it so everyone will be alerted.
A strong design that does not easily get broken If the door break down into parts due to impact then it will lead to injuries. Thus, we design our doors using high-quality, thick steel that provides excellent resistance against minor bumps and everyday wear and tear from machinery. The doors are designed to be interlocking which would also contribute to the prevention of breaking down. Automated processes which make use of state of the art equipment to provide panel uniform thickness and welds that are always solid contribute to the overall durability of the doors and it is also provided with 20,000 cycles tests before shipping which means these are robust enough to use and handle anything. Heavy duty brackets that are attached to the tracks that hold them tight so they don’t move due to vibration from the traffic are also applied, and its impact is a cushioned landing to its base to reduce impact damage.
Thus it will not break into pieces very easily and shattered if there’s any kind of impact coming from outside either a machine from another one going to hit the doors. This helps to make sure that the employees working near to the doors can safely stay unharmed even if an impact occurred. The doors Seppes offer not only just offer a protection but an assurance that can be delivered to you day by day. To back it up, with over 6600 projects finished worldwide with the assurance that there are more than 80 Fortune 500 companies we have worked with to demonstrate the protection we can offer.
