UNE-EN 12978:2025

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, when any safety standard covering such entrance equipment references this standard.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the power operation of doors, and gates 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 machinery 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 and barriers defined and entrance control equipment by the scope of EN 12453:2017+A1:2021, EN 16005:2012 and FprEN 17352:2021.

This document does not deal with 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.