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Eight years after Gate Safe - the charity established to drive awareness of the required safety protocols associated with automated gates - took their campaign to Downing Street,  the organisation has returned to Westminster to meet with its key stakeholders to discuss future initiatives designed to improve the safety of automated gates in the UK.

The Westminster Round Table, held in the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday 12thSeptember, was chaired by Gate Safe’s Patron, Madeleine Moon MP and…

The Association of Fencing Industries (AFI), the professional trade association servicing the needs of the UK fencing industry is publicly backing the Gate Safe initiative by becoming an official Gate Safe supporter.

AFI members currently number 200 and includes fencing contractors, manufacturers and installers, in addition to the specialist sub-groups the Electric Security Fencing Federation and the Electric Fence Association, all of whom have the potential to be active in the automated gate…

June 2018: Gate Safe, the pioneering charity set up to improve awareness of the safety requirements for automated gates, has expanded its team and appointed Rob Williams as Technical and Training Advisor.

Rob has worked in the gate automation sector for 15 years and brings extensive industry knowledge to the role. His last position as an Automation Workshop Supervisor required him to train engineers on specific automated gate products; oversee new product development for the company and manage…

The gate escape! Escape artist toddler terrifies parents by wriggling through iron garden gate and bolting out onto the road

• Little Austin Gilbert, 3, was playing in the garden under the watchful eye of dad
• But Sam Gilbert, 31, thought the gate would contain his son as he dashed inside
• But adventurous Austin squeezed through the metal bars of the gate and bolted  

This is the incredible moment a toddler carried out the GATE escape by wriggling through the iron bars of the garden barrier…

Shocking moment toddler boy gets firmly stuck in an expandable metal gate after it suddenly started retracting when he put his head into it.

• A boy in China was playing while waiting outside a kindergarten with his mother
• The automatic gate suddenly pulled back and the boy's head became trapped
• Onlookers joined forces to pull the boy out and he did not sustain any injuries

A toddler boy in China has been rescued after having his head trapped in a security gate when the automatic barrier…

A 66-year-old cleaning lady became trapped in a motorized access gate of a farm company in Stallhofen and died from hypothermia after not being discovered for 7 hours.

On Tuesday afternoon mourning candles and a black flag in front of the main building testify to the tragic, fatal accident in the night.  The 66-year-old cleaning lady had been trapped in a motorized access gate on a company site in western Styria and appears to have frozen to death. The victim - from the district of Voitsberg -…

Gate Safe announces its decision for Handsam, the leading expert in education compliance management, to become an official supporter of the charity.

Handsam’s expertise covers every aspect of compliance in an educational setting, including health and safety matters. Their clients include Local Authorities, some of the biggest academy trusts in the country, small MATs (Multi-Academy Trusts), individual academies and maintained schools and a wide range of independent schools.

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A little boy had to have part of his finger amputated and sewn back together after a park gate acted like a 'guillotine', his mother has said.

Frankie Delius, 7, was heading into Stevens Park in Welling with his sister and granddad to play after school last Wednesday (November 1).

However, Frankie's finger was sliced open as his sister opened the gate to the park.

The 'razor sharp' gate sliced Frankie's finger down one side and he was rushed to Queen Elizabeth's hospital in Woolwich to have it…

30th October 2017: The installer responsible for the automatic iron gate which fell on grandmother Jill Lunn, at her home in Norwich in 2013, has been given a 42-month prison sentence.

The court had been advised that the accident was ‘a wholly preventable tragedy’ and that the installer’s actions amounted to manslaughter by gross negligence. 

The gate, which weighed around a third of a tonne was installed in March 2013, but without any stopping devices to prevent it falling if it was operated…

MUKILTEO, Wash. — A 10-year-old Everett-area boy was killed Thursday when a heavy wrought iron gate at a church fell on him and he suffered a major head injury, the Mukilteo Fire Department said.

The department said it believes it was just “awful accident.”

The accident occurred at the Sulamita Slavic Pentecostal Church in the 12400 block of Evergreen Drive in Mukilteo.

Paramedics arrived at about 4:31 p.m. to find the boy on the ground and a bystander performing CPR on him. He was taken to the…

A 52 year old man has today been found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a Blofield Heath woman in 2013.

Following a joint investigation undertaken by Norfolk Constabulary, Norfolk County Council’s Trading Standards team and the Health and Safety Executive, Robert Churchyard of Turner Road, Norwich, appeared at a two week trial last year and then at a retrial this week. He will be sentenced on Monday 30 October 2017.

The company he worked for, Automated Garage…

A woman was crushed to death in northern Israel Friday by an electronic gate.

The 57-year-old from Nazareth Illit was on her way to work at a supermarket in the northern city of Migdal Haemek when a heavy electronic gate leading to the store closed on her.

She was taken to the hospital in critical condition but was later pronounced dead.

Hebrew media reports said it appeared she was crushed by the gate after trying to open it.

Police opened an investigation into the incident.

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This is the four-year-old boy who was crushed to death after a 450lb iron gate fell on him while he played football on a family holiday in Italy.

Angelo Quirino, from Manchester, was visiting family near Rome when the freak accident happened on Saturday.

Reports suggest the youngster was playing with his brother when the tragedy occurred.

His uncle and neighbours near the property they had hired in Anzio, 40 miles south of the capital, rushed to help after hearing screams, but found him…

Nearly seven years since Gate Safe became the first organisation to initiate a campaign for improved standards in automated gate safety, the charity marked another important milestone, as it celebrated hitting 1,000 installers on its acclaimed national register of Gate Safe Aware Installers - which currently features 459 companies.

The training session at Trade Skills 4 U – the UK’s no 1 provider of electrical training which regularly hosts Gate Safe Aware training – was attended by 17…