Compliance & Certificates

1. What regulations apply to automatic doors in Australia

AADIF promotes industry best practice, and compliance to NCC-BCA and Australian Standards are essential to ensure the safety of all pedestrians and protection of industry stakeholders.

Australian Standard AS: 5007 – 2007 ‘Powered doors for pedestrian access and egress’ is endorsed by AADIF as an Australian Standard promoting industry best practice and sets out new performance, safety, maintenance and testing requirements for all automatic pedestrian doors including sliding doors, swing doors, folding doors and revolving doors.
Australian Standard AS1428 “Design for access and mobility, Part 1’.
The National Code of Compliance – Building Code of Australia (BCA), clauses D2.19 and D.2.21.
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which directly references the BCA and AS1428

Doers your automatic door provider actively engage in best practice?

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2. AADIF Product Advisory Notice – Only buy automatic pedestrian doors that have been tested by a NATA accredited laboratory.

AADIF Product Advisory Notice

Please Note: NATA – National Association of Testing Authorities is an accreditation body. NATA does not certify or endorse any products and any previous references implying that NATA certified or endorsed any product were inaccurate and have been amended.

3. Compliance Certificates

The following companies have met the testing requirements for (nominated) operators as outlined within AS5007.

Exova Warringtonfire are NATA accredited in the compliance testing of powered automatic door operators as stipulated in AS5007 Section 4.6 and Appendix D..

COMPANY	OPERATOR MODEL #	TESTED BY
ADIS Automatic Doors	Sliding Door Operator Model No: NG-IDOOR	Exova Warringtonfire
Auto Ingress	Model No: LD220B Model No: LS300	Exova Warringtonfire Exova Warringtonfire
BriTer Door Solutions	Model No: BDS4	Exova Warringtonfire
BJ Talbot Auto Doors	Sliding Door Operator Model No: DSH-250	Exova Warringtonfire
DORMA Australia	Sliding Door Operator Model No: EL301 Swing Door Operator Model No: ED100 Sliding Door Operator Model No: AL401 Sliding Door Operator Model No: HD200 Sliding Door Operator Model No: ES200 Swing Door Operator Model No: ED250 Frameless Breakout Sliding Door Operator Model No: EL301	Exova Warringtonfire Exova Warringtonfire Exova Warringtonfire Exova Warringtonfire Exova Warringtonfire Exova Warringtonfire Exova Warringtonfire

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Working with NATA accredited building product laboratories

AS5007 clause 4.6 ‘Verification of Compliance’ requires all powered door operators to be NATA tested to comply with clause 4.4.1.1 and 4.4.2 and a NATA test report is your reassurance that the product you are purchasing has been independently tested and validated.

The tests ensure verification and validation of high quality products – engineered to suit their stated maximum door weight, designed to operate under extreme temperature conditions and critically designed to open doors at this maximum door weight under loss of mains power to permit safe egress/escape.

AS5007 – Clause 4.4.1.1a minimum 1 million cycle endurance test
AS5007 – Clause 4.4.1.1b & c – minimum 1000 cycles at -15 degress and + 50 degrees Celsius
AS5007 – Clause 4.4.2a – minimum 40 cycles when subjected to mains power failure

NATA Accredited laboratories in the testing to AS: 5007 (section 4.6 & testing to Appendix D)