Physical Security

Gate Safety Week

by Mark Rowe

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector who led the investigation into the death of a child in a South Wales automated gate accident will be playing a part in a national safety initiative next month.

Stuart Charles is to be a speaker at an event during Gate Safety Week from October 13 to 19: visit www.gatesafetyweek.org.uk.

Safety campaigners launched Gate Safety Week to alert the public to the dangers posed by poorly installed and maintained gates. In recent years three children and three adults have been killed in gate accidents and there have been many other serious injuries caused by unsafe gates.

Neil Sampson is chairman of the Door & Hardware Federation Powered Gate Group which is running Gate Safety Week. He said: “As an industry we’re determined to do everything we can to ensure tragic accidents like this do not happen again. In the run up to Gate Safety Week we’re partnering with a number of influential organisations in the safety, enforcement, inspection, education and security sectors who will be lending their support to the campaign.”

The seminar is being held at Fencex, the fencing industry exhibition at Stoneleigh Exhibition Park, near Coventry, on Wednesday October 15.

His presentation will major on the accident in South Wales where five-year-old Karolina Golabek tragically died after being crushed between the closing edge of the gate and the gate post. The two gate companies involved in the repair and maintenance were found guilty of serious safety failings and were heavily fined.

There will be a question and answer session following the seminar. Manufacturers, suppliers, installers and maintainers of powered automatic gates and gate automation equipment who make up the DHF Powered Gate Group, are supporting Gate Safety Week. Visit www.gatesafetyweek.org.uk.

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