National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 12978:2024. It supersedes BS EN 12978:2003+A1:2009, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee B/538/5, Industrial and commercial garage doors and gates.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

Contractual and legal considerations

This publication has been prepared in good faith, however no representation, warranty, assurance or undertaking (express or implied) is or will be made, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted by BSI in relation to the adequacy, accuracy, completeness or reasonableness of this publication. All and any such responsibility and liability is expressly disclaimed to the full extent permitted by the law.

This publication is provided as is, and is to be used at the recipient’s own risk.

The recipient is advised to consider seeking professional guidance with respect to its use of this publication.

This publication is not intended to constitute a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

This publication has been prepared under a mandate given to the European Standards Organizations by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association. It is intended to support requirements of the EU legislation detailed in the European Foreword. A European Annex, usually Annex ZA or ZZ, describes how this publication relates to that EU legislation.

For the Great Britain market (England, Scotland and Wales), if UK Government has designated this publication for conformity with UKCA marking (or similar) legislation, it may contain an additional National Annex. Where such a National Annex exists, it shows the correlation between this publication and the relevant UK legislation. If there is no National Annex of this kind, the relevant Annex ZA or ZZ in the body of the European text will indicate the relationship to UK regulation applicable in Great Britain. References to EU legislation may need to be read in accordance with the UK designation and the applicable UK law. Further information on designated standards can be found at www.bsigroup.com/standardsandregulation.

For the Northern Ireland market, UK law will continue to implement relevant EU law subject to periodic confirmation. Therefore Annex ZA/ZZ in the European text, and references to EU legislation, are still valid for this market.

UK Government is responsible for legislation. For information on legislation and policies relating to that legislation, consult the relevant pages of www.gov.uk.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 December 2024.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 11 November 2024.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN 12978:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 33 “Doors, windows, shutters, building hardware and curtain walling”, the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by June 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by June 2025.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 12978:2003+A1:2009.

Compared with EN 12978:2003+A1:2009, the following changes have been made:

revision according to the requirements of EN ISO 12100:2010 (safety of machines);
change of scope ensuring that only basic requirements of protective devices put separately on the market are covered by this document; requirements for the safe function of the combination of protective device and industrial, commercial and garage doors are given in EN 12453;
modification of the definition of test pieces and test procedures.

This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CEN by the European Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests for its Member States.

For the relationship with EU Legislation, see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part of this document.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

Introduction

This document is a type-C standard as stated in EN ISO 12100.

This document is of relevance, in particular, for the following stakeholder groups representing the market players with regard to machinery safety:

machine manufacturers (small, medium and large enterprises);
health and safety bodies (regulators, accident prevention organizations, market surveillance etc.).

Others can be affected by the level of machinery safety achieved with the means of the document by the above-mentioned stakeholder groups:

machine users/employers (small, medium and large enterprises);
machine users/employees (e.g. trade unions, organizations for people with special needs);
service providers, e.g. for maintenance (small, medium and large enterprises);
consumers (in case of machinery intended for use by consumers).

The above-mentioned stakeholder groups have been given the possibility to participate at the drafting process of this document.

The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events are covered are indicated in the Scope of this document.

When requirements of this type-C standard are different from those which are stated in type-A or type-B standards, the requirements of this type-C standard take precedence over the requirements of the other standards for machines that have been designed and built according to the requirements of this type-C standard.

1 Scope

This document specifies requirements and test methods for sensitive protective equipment put separately on the market as safety components to be used with entrance equipment such as power operated industrial, commercial and garage doors, gates and barriers, power operated pedestrian doors and power operated pedestrian entrance control equipment.

NOTE Requirements for the safe function of the combination of protective device and industrial, commercial and garage doors and barriers are given in EN 12453.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the power operation of doors, gates and barriers 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 sensitive protective equipment including transportation, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping are considered by this document.

Whenever the term „door” is used in this document, it is deemed to cover the full scope of types and variances of doors, gates, barriers and entrance control equipment listed in the scope of EN 12453:2017+A1:2021, EN 16005:2023+A1:2024 and EN 17352:2022.

This document is not intended to be used for sensitive protective equipment using ultrasonic, radar, capacitive, inductive, passive infrared and vision based technologies. For these types of equipment this document can be used as a guide to demonstrate that such a device is allowed.

This document is not applicable to sensitive protective equipment manufactured before the date of its publication.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 List of significant hazards

4.1 General

4.2 Hazards caused by fixing

4.3 Hazards caused by the shape

4.4 Hazards caused by use of energy

4.5 Hazards generated by optical radiation

4.6 Hazards caused by out of range wavelength of the optical detection technology

4.7 Hazards caused by the loss of the safety function

4.8 Hazards caused by lack of detection capability

4.9 Hazards caused by inadequate setting

4.10 Hazards caused by permanent deformation of PSPE sensing element

4.11 Hazards caused by loss of safety integrity

4.12 Hazards caused by electro-magnetic disturbances - Immunity

5 Safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures

5.1 General

5.2 Fixing

5.3 Shape

5.4 Use of energy

5.5 Optical radiation

5.6 Wavelength of the optical detection technology

5.7 Safety function of the sensitive protective equipment

5.8 Detection capability

5.9 Inadequate settings

5.10 Deformation of PSPE sensing element

5.11 Performance level

5.12 Electromagnetic compatibility - Immunity

6 Verification of the safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures

6.1 General

6.2 Fixing

6.3 Shape

6.4 Use of energy

6.5 Optical radiation

6.6 Wavelength of the optical detection technology

6.7 Safety function of the protective equipment

6.8 Detection capability

6.9 Verification of inadequate settings

6.10 Verification of recovery of deformation of PSPE sensing element

6.11 Verification of performance level

6.12 Electromagnetic compatibility - Immunity

7 Information for use

7.1 General

7.2 Instruction handbook

7.3 Marking

Bibliography

BS EN 12978:2024

Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates and pedestrian doorsets. Protective devices for power operated doors and gates. Requirements and test methods

Current

Published:

31 Dec 2024