Automatic Door Signage Requirements

Automatic door signs and labels show your customers visitors employees and guests where automatic doors are located with our automatic doors signs and labels.

Automatic door signage requirements.

Direction of travel sig. The signs shall be mounted 50 12 1270mm 305mm from the floor to the center line of the sign. Proper signage is critical to the safe operation of automatic doors so the signage required by the standards must be maintained throughout the life of the door assembly. Automatic door and hardware carries automatic sliding door stickers automatic folding door stickers automatic swing door stickers low energy automatic door stickers automatic revolving door stickers and many more.

Top of the document. Alert everyone to the automatic functions of your entrance with these labels. The letters shall be 5 8inches 16mm high minimum. Available in many materials including double sided adhesive for glass doors.

Requirements for signage on automatic doors is addressed in ansi bhma a156 10 power operated pedestrian doors and ansi bhma a156 19 power assist and low energy power operated doors. Straight and curved sliding doors and prismatic and folding doors. Doors shall be equipped with signage visible from either side of the door instructing the user as to the operation and function of the door. Signage should be affixed to the powered door system at a height of between 1300 mm and 1600 mm.

For more information the authority having jurisdiction ahj should be consulted. These signs help prevent unnecessary accidents. The signage has been designed to make users particularly partially sighted persons aware that the doors are automatic and where keep clear signage is applied to keep clear of the area where the automatic door operates. In non escape situations the activation distance has been reduced from 1 400mm to 1 000mm to allow for cross traffic in other words to ensure.

Minimum number at least 60 of public entrances must be accessible in new construction in addition to entrances directly serving tenancies parking facilities pedestrian tunnels and elevated walkways. The minimum activation distance for automatic swing or sliding doors on escape routes has been increased from 1 400mm to 1 500mm as people move faster in an emergency so doors must open sooner. Our automatic door warning labels warn your guests and employees of automatic doors. For additional information and diagrams depicting the signage requirements refer to the applicable bhma standard available from the builders hardware manufacturers association.