Safety Features On Revolving Doors

A healthcare facility will typically have all sorts of specialized doors. While it will often use glass doors between the facility's individual units, it's also common to see a revolving door at the front of the building. In addition to offering a stylish look, this door provides a number of advantages — namely, allowing lots of people to enter and exit at the same time. If you're shopping for a new revolving door to replace the existing one at your healthcare facility, safety is a topic to keep in mind. Many revolving doors have numerous safety features, including the following.

Stop Due To Contact

You'll want to ensure that any revolving door you buy for your building has sensors that will allow it to temporarily stop moving when anything makes contact with it. This is an important safety feature when slow-moving people use the door. For example, if someone isn't walking quickly, the door could bump their back foot as they take their stride. The door will sense this contact and stop moving for a moment, allowing the person to continue walking forward. A moment later, the door will resume its revolution so that the person can finish going through the door.

Toe Guards

It's important to choose a revolving door that features toe guards at the base of each of the door wings. The wings are the framed panels of glass inside the door that revolve. The presence of toe guards helps to keep people from poking their feet into the gap beneath the door wing, which could cause an injury. Children, especially, might be tempted to put their foot in this gap, and ensuring that your door has toe guards will make this impossible. Toe guards are typically made of heavy rubber that creates a solid barrier.

Automatic Shutoff

You'll also want to ensure that the revolving door you buy for your healthcare facility is equipped with several automatic shutoff buttons. These are buttons that are situated around the perimeter of the door and designed to immediately stop the door's movement when someone pushes them. In the event that someone witnesses a person in distress due to any issue with the door — an elderly person falling while using the door, for example — they can quickly press the button. Once the door stops moving, people can then assess the best way to proceed. 

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