The safe door in children daycare centres

At their age, children are scarcely aware of the dangers in their environment and are unable to recognise potential hazards. In practice, unnecessary accidents often occur with insufficiently or completely unsafeguarded doors in child daycare centres.

Our Athmer finger protection systems have proved themselves for over 30 years. They are durable and reliably prevent injuries by eliminating the danger of accidental entrapment of fingers between the closing edges of the door leaf and the door frame.

• Protective roller blind that automatically maintains a constant tension
• Verified long-term reliability 1,000,000 cycles (NR-30 and NR- 38)
• 200,000 cycles (in-house test NR-26)
• Fire-retardant synthetic fibre cover
• Standard length 1,925 m

Athmer offers a flexible choice of colours for all finger protection profiles (opening and closing face). With models NR-30, NR-38 and NR-32 UniSafe®, you can also vary the colour of the covers.

Besides the standard profile covers RAL9016, RAL7016, C-0 and C-31, you can also choose from the large colour palette of the RAL Classic chart, and other anodised shades such as C-32, C-33, C-34 or C-35 are possible.  All other special wishes on request.

fabric colours

For the finger protector models NR-30, NR-38 and NR-32 UniSafe® different fabric colours are available: white/black, blue/black, yellow/black, green/black and red/black

You can request free samples.

• Solutions for all doors
• Opening face protective profiles reliably safeguard the gap between the door leaf and the door frame on the opening face
• Suitable for retrofitting
• Maintenance free
• Aluminium profiles anodised or colour coated
• Suitable for outdoor use

Pleas note: Our illustrations show standardised installation situations. Please check your particular installation situation on site. 

The legislator in Germany has recognised the hazards of becoming trapped in the gap between the door and the door frame and has issued a mandatory accident prevention regulation (UVV) to protect children. 

The accident prevention regulation for child daycare centres (DGUV regulation 82, formerly GUV-V S2) formulates corresponding specifications for daycare centres which also define structural design and equipment.

As a result, § 13 (3) stipulates:

“Shearing points must be avoided on the secondary closing edges of doors.”

Besides new builds, the accident prevention regulations (UVV) concerning child daycare centres as per §30 (2) of the German Statutory Accident Insurance Association (DGUV) rule 102-002 on child daycare centres is also binding on existing daycare centres if children under the age of 3 are looked after there. The use of finger protection systems lies in principle within the responsibility of the operator of the centre. This operator decides on the basis of the  user group and the spatial conditions about the products