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`Safety Commission Publishes Final Rules For Automatic
`Garage Door Openers
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`December 3, 1992
`In an effort to reduce the number of deaths to children who become entrapped under garage doors
`with automatic openers, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today issued final
`rules for automatic residential garage door openers. The rules, which will be published in the Federal Register, include revised entrapment protection
`requirements for all automatic residential garage door openers manufactured on or after January 1, 1993 for sale in the United States. The rules also
`include certification requirements and recordkeeping requirements for garage door opener manufacturers.
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`The entrapment protection requirements are part of a Congressional mandate in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 1990. The
`legislation requires that automatic residential garage door openers manufactured on or after January 1, 1991 conform to the entrapment protection
`requirements of the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standard for Safety, UL 325.
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`The legislation also requires that residential garage door openers manufactured on or after January 1, 1993 comply with additional entrapment
`protection requirements developed by UL.
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`The rules issued today specify these additional entrapment protection requirements. The revised standard requires that residential garage door
`openers contain one of the following:
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`-External entrapment protection device, such as an "electric eye" which "sees" an object obstructing the door without having actual contact with the
`object. Another similar device would be a door edge sensor. The door edge sensor acts much like the door edge sensors on elevator doors.
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`-Constant contact control button which is a wall-mounted button requiring a person to hold in the control button continuously for the door to close
`completely. If the button is released before the door closes, the door would reverse and open to the highest position. The remote control transmitter
`will not close the door with this option.
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`Additionally, all newly-manufactured garage door openers must include a sticker warning consumers of the potential entrapment hazard. The sticker
`is to be placed near the wall mounted control button.
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`The entrapment protection requirements are aimed at reducing the potential for entrapment between the edge of the garage door and the floor. Since
`1982, the Commission received reports of 54 children between the ages of two and 14 who died after becoming entrapped under doors with
`automatic garage door openers.
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`CPSC urges consumers with automatic garage door openers to test the openers according to the manufacturer's recommendations, to make sure
`they have a reversing feature. The reversing feature should then be tested monthly. If the door fails to reverse, adjust the door according to the
`owner's manual or have it inspected by a professional repairman.
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`Additionally, owners of automatic garage door openers should teach their children about garage door safety and keep transmitters and remote
`controls out of children's reach.
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`The certification and recordkeeping requirements issued today finalize rules proposed by the Commission on March 18, 1992.
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`The certification rule takes effect 30 days after publication in the Federal Register. The rule requires a label on automatic residential garage door
`openers indicating that the opener conforms with the entrapment protection requirements of the rule. The label allows consumers to distinguish
`between complying and non-complying garage door openers. The label is standardized for non-UL listed garage door openers; UL listed openers
`can continue to use the UL logo as a certificate of compliance.
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`The recordkeeping rule, which also takes effect 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, requires manufacturers to maintain written records
`of tests that demonstrate the basis for certification.
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`CPSC is issuing these rules as part of its mission to protect the public from unreasonable risks of injury and death associated with consumer
`products. The Commission's objective is to reduce the estimated 28.5 million injuries and 21,600 deaths associated each year with the 15,000
`different types of consumer products under CPSC's jurisdiction.
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`The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of
`thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the
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`chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
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