We are Oregon and SW Washington’s premier provider of factory certified technicians for AAADM Inspection for Hospitals. The American Association of Automatic Door Manufactures (AAADM) has designed a program that certifies installers to the following:
ANSI/BHMA Standards
Power Operated Pedestrian Doors ANSI/BHMA A156.10-2017
Power Assist and Low Energy Power Operated Doors ANSI/BHMA A156.19-2013
Low Energy Power Operated Sliding and Folding Doors. ANSI/BHMA A156.38-2014
AAADM Training improves and promotes safety in automatic doors. Constantly, people ask me why this inspection is so important. The short answer is that it helps mitigate the risk that these types of doors are functioning within the standard.
The long answer is that in our litigious society if you are negligent in the servicing of your doors annually you could be liable. That is to say, having an automatic door that causes someone harm and you were careless in its service, chances are you will be defending yourself in court. Keeping your door functioning within the prescribed standard will help to minimize liability. You can find real-world catastrophes with a few stokes on Google or YouTube.
Automatic Door Accidents
BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) 4.9.2019 — Firstly, a South Dakota woman is suing grocery chain Hy-Vee after she was knocked down by the store’s automatic doors and suffered injuries that required surgery.
NEW MARTINSVILLE 6.27.2019 – Secondly, a couple from Friendly sued Walmart and another company after the husband’s arm was trapped in the automatic doors at the store.
SEATTLE 11.11.2015 — A Seattle jury awarded a Springfield, Illinois, man $21.5 million in lawsuit settlement after the man suffered a mild traumatic brain injury when he was hit by an automatic sliding door on board a Holland America Line cruise.
Hospital Automatic Door Liability
For example, take anyone of those examples and work through the liability. You’re a hospital dealing with patients in very fragile states. An elderly patient in her 90’s in coming into the hospital for routine labs and as she is walking through the front sliding door it closes a little too fast and knocks her over. As a result of the impact of the fall breaks her hip and she dies. Any wrongful death suit will quickly focus on the test results of the last inspection and if it was within its tolerances. Wait what? You haven’t had it tested? Most Importantly, you don’t have any reports stating the last test results? In conclusion, you can fund your inspection program for 2 or 3 years with all the costs associated to settle out of court.
Contact us today. We can set up a time to come talk about your pain points and how we can address them. All our inspectors are industry professionals who are AAADM certified. We can walk through the process and show you the reporting vehicle we use. We will cover our tracking of noncompliant doors and door systems. When identifying noncompliant doors we can preform the services to bring them back into standard. Let us be your strategic partner for AAADM Inspection for Hospitals. We will take the headache away when your thinking about your swing door operators and your automatic sliding doors.
