Welcome to Gate Safety Week – raising awareness of the dangers of poorly fitted or maintained powered gates.
Welcome to Gate Safety Week - raising awareness of the dangers of poorly fitted or maintained powered gates.

Gate Safety Week News

A great turnout at Fencex!

Yesterday’s Fencex event, held in the Midlands, was a great success and we were delighted to see so many members turning out for the day.  More than 350 attendees passed through the doors, to see DHF members exhibiting in the DHF Pavilion.  JCM Technologies, Cova Security Gates, EasyGates, Inova Gates, Sommer, Autogate Systens and new…

NSI and DHF achieve prestigious accolade at major security awards

The determination of two leading organisations to confine tragic powered gate accidents to the history books has propelled them to the finals of the prestigious Security & Fire Excellence Awards 2016. The DHF (Door & Hardware Federation) and the NSI (National Security Inspectorate) have been chosen as joint finalists in the category of Best Contribution…

Gate Safety Week is here!

Super support to kick start our campaign! At last!  After a momentous build, Gate Safety Week is here and we’re off to a flying start!  Twitter is buzzing with news of the campaign and the support has continued to roll in from across the industry.  This is now the third year that the DHF initiative,…

As Gate Safety Week begins … £500,000 court fine imposed after death caused by unsafe gate

On the eve of this week’s Gate Safety Week – a campaign drawing public attention to unsafe gates – a company was fined half a million pounds after a man was killed by a gate in Wales. The sentence was imposed on wholesale company AF Blakemore and Son Ltd on Friday, October 7 at Cardiff…