Garage Door Safety
Your home and yard are not the only places that require safety measures to be performed. Garages can also serve as a place to cause injuries if safety precautions are not taken. Your car door, in particular, is an important piece of equipment that should be given extra safety attention.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has stated that 4 children, on average, are killed every year by garage doors. It is necessary to properly take care of your garage door. Don’t risk injuries by not having a safe car door.
Car doors can harm, or even kill children by crushing them if they are not properly maintained. Garage car doors are the heaviest and largest doors you own. It is no wonder that injuries can happen quickly.
To avoid harm by your garage door, be sure that it can open and close correctly. Garage door openers are a very important and necessary safety tool against garage doors crushing children. Be sure that your door correctly reverses when it senses something before it touches the ground, by placing a piece of wood underneath it to test it out.
Garage doors can also pinch fingers. Most garage doors can quickly be opened with automatic door openers, to help children’s fingers from being pinched quickly. There are also garage doors that are designed to push fingers out of the way when the door hits the ground to avoid pinches.
Heavy springs are used to open and close garage doors. These springs won’t last forever, and will eventually wear down and snap. This break can cause serious injury to those inside the garage, or even cause damage to garage equipment or your cars.
To avoid harm or damage from a broken spring, take preventative measures before it breaks. When your garage door is closed you can thread a wire through the spring and tie it until it is secured. That way, if the spring does break it won’t fly across the garage, but will stay on the secured wire.
Garage doors can be a dangerous piece of equipment if not properly maintained. Be sure to take the time to inspect it every few months to make sure it is working properly. If you find any problems with it, correct them as soon as possible.
