dhf webinars are exclusively for dhf members. They are free to attend and provide clarity on a range of subject matters and to answer some of the most frequently asked questions received by the Technical Department. Training & Compliance Officer, Nick Perkins will present the webinars via Teams. Each session will feature a Q&A section allowing members to raise any queries.
To view the webinar schedule and to book a webinar please visit the Online Training Calender.
Members who attend CPD certified webinars will receive up to two hours of CPD and a CPD certificate of attendance.
Whether due to complaint, inter-member dispute or new member compliance assessment, dhf have noted that a significant number of companies are not conducting and recording an adequate compliance and residual risk assessment of traffic barrier systems they install or maintain. This webinar will walk you through the process of identifying all potential traffic barrier hazards, assessing if they are adequately controlled in accordance with the standard, and then conducting a site/system specific residual risk assessment of the finished barrier to gauge the need for additional measures such as warning lamps, signage, marking, vehicle safety or traffic control.
Whether due to complaint, inter-member dispute or new member compliance assessment, dhf have noted that a significant number of companies are not conducting and recording an adequate compliance and residual risk assessment of systems they install or maintain. This webinar will walk you through the process of identifying all potential hazards, assessing if they are adequately controlled in accordance with the standard, and then conducting a site & system specific residual risk assessment of the finished system to gauge the need for additional measures such as warning lamps, signage, marking, vehicle safety or traffic control.
Compliance & Residual Risk Assessment – Horizontally Acting Products (CPD Certified)Whether due to complaint, inter-member dispute or new member compliance assessment, dhf have noted that a significant number of companies are not conducting and recording an adequate compliance and residual risk assessment of systems they install or maintain. This webinar will walk you through the process of identifying all potential hazards, assessing if they are adequately controlled in accordance with the standard, and then conducting a site/system specific residual risk assessment of the finished system to gauge the need for additional measures such as warning lamps, signage, marking, vehicle safety or traffic control.
Fall-back protection related questions are the most frequently received enquiry to dhf Technical Department. Enquirers most commonly want to know when the requirement to have a safety brake came into force. The short answer is that there is not, and never has been, a specific legal requirement to have a safety brake on a vertically acting door - but it really is not that simple.
Fall-back incidents are quite commonly dramatic and violent in nature, thankfully most are near misses but where a person is under the door at the time, a fatality is the most likely outcome. There is a clear requirement to protect against potentially fatal fall-back incidents, but the solution is quite often not a safety brake.
In many cases assessing the safety of a particular door or shutter is not straightforward. Whilst an unbalanced shutter that weighs in excess of 20kg clearly needs a safety brake or an internally protected direct drive, other doors and shutters are more complicated to assess.
Find out how to make an assessment and what the law says about fall-back protection in this 1 hour session.
Force Limitation (CPD Certified)Most companies now recognise that safe force is one of the main ways to prevent powered doors and gates from injuring people and achieving compliance. However, when dhf are required to investigate complaints, inter-member disputes or new member compliance assessments, we have noted that a significant number of companies have not assessed and verified safe force at significant hazards. This webinar will explain what safe force and time limits apply in a range of hazard locations and how to achieve it, how test at the main closing edges, and how to verify safe force at hazards that cannot be easily or safely measured directly to achieve legal compliance.
Non-contact Presence Detection (CPD Certified)Non-contact presence detection is one of the 3 ways that powered doors, gates and barriers can be prevented from injuring people and achieve compliance with EN 12453.
However, for many years since the standard was first published in 2000, this technology was not commonly used. Now that these systems have been developed and refined, this approach to safety and compliance is gaining popularity. Due the relative lack of use as compared to hold-to-run or force limitation, many companies are not quite up to speed on application and testing of non-contact systems.
This webinar will explain what non-contact presence detection is, how it can be used, and how to test it for compliance in a range of hazard locations.
