What is BS 7036:2026 - Power operated pedestrian doorsets, entrance control equipment and manually operated revolving doorsets about?
BS 7036:2026 provides recommendations for assessing and reducing risks associated with pedestrian door and entrance control systems. It supports safer specification, installation, operation and management by helping you identify hazards and select suitable safeguarding measures.
The standard applies to:
- Power operated pedestrian doorsets.
- Power operated pedestrian entrance control equipment, including speed lanes and turnstiles.
- Manually operated revolving doorsets.
- Manually operated turnstiles.
It is intended to help protect everyone who could reasonably encounter these systems. This includes children, older people, and people with reduced physical, sensory, or cognitive capabilities.
Who is BS 7036:2026 - Power operated pedestrian doorsets, entrance control equipment and manually operated revolving doorsets for?
BS 7036:2026 is for organizations and professionals responsible for selecting, installing, assessing, maintaining, or managing pedestrian entrance systems.
Typical users include:
- Automatic door and entrance control manufacturers and suppliers.
- Installers, commissioning engineers, and maintenance providers.
- Architects, designers, and specifiers.
- Building owners, occupiers, and facilities managers.
- Duty holders and health and safety professionals.
- Certification, inspection, and conformity assessment bodies.
- Owners and operators of public buildings.
- Responsible persons managing access, safety, or emergency egress.
The guidance is relevant to entrances in hospitals, offices, retail centres, schools, stadiums, transport hubs, universities, government building and event venues.
What does BS 7036:2026 - Power operated pedestrian doorsets, entrance control equipment and manually operated revolving doorsets cover?
BS 7036:2026 covers risk assessment, hazard analysis, risk reduction and technical safeguarding advice for pedestrian entrance systems.
The standard includes guidance on:
- The risk assessment process.
- The installation environment and its management.
- Electrical design, glazing, construction, and activation systems.
- Safety devices and signage.
- Door systems on escape routes and emergency exits.
- Power operated sliding and folding doorsets.
- Power operated swing doorsets.
- Power operated revolving doorsets.
- Retractable and swing speed lanes.
- Manual revolving doorsets.
- Manual and powered vertical turnstiles.
- Turnstiles that rotate through an angle.
It applies machinery-based risk assessment principles to both powered and manually operated entrance systems.
The standard does not cover the manufacture of power operated pedestrian doorsets, entrance control equipment, revolving doorsets, or turnstiles. It also excludes train platform trackside doors.
Why should you use BS 7036:2026 - Power operated pedestrian doorsets, entrance control equipment and manually operated revolving doorsets?
European standards establish important performance and testing requirements. However, they do not determine whether every installation is appropriate for every user.
BS 7036:2026 gives you practical UK guidance for making those application-specific decisions.
Using the standard can help you:
- Identify hazards associated with pedestrian doors and entrance control systems.
- Assess the people who could reasonably use each entrance.
- Consider the severity of possible contact, falls, or other injuries.
- Select safeguarding measures appropriate to the installation.
- Apply a more consistent approach across specification, installation, commissioning, inspection and maintenance.
- Support safer and more inclusive access.
- Balance safety, accessibility, security, and emergency egress considerations.
- Give relevant teams and suppliers a shared risk assessment framework.
BS 7036:2026 is intended to be read alongside BS EN 16005:2023+A1:2024 for power operated pedestrian doorsets.
What’s changed?
The revision extends the scope and strengthens the standard’s approach to user vulnerability and application-specific risk.
Key changes include:
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Wider scope: The standard now includes manual revolving doorsets, manual turnstiles, powered vertical turnstiles, angled turnstiles, and retractable and swing speed lanes.
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Updated vulnerable-user definitions: Terminology has been aligned with BS EN 16005:2023+A1:2024 and BS EN 17352:2022.
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Greater focus on likely users: Assessments now consider the types of people who could use an entrance, rather than their expected proportion.
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Consideration of temporary needs: Reduced physical, sensory, or cognitive capabilities can be permanent or temporary.
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Stronger severity assessment: You are guided to consider whether contact could cause a fall or serious injury.
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Clearer risk categories: The revision provides more defined recommendations for low-risk and high-risk installations.
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More specific safeguarding advice: It identifies measures that are not appropriate for safeguarding selected hazards.
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Machinery-based principles: Established machinery risk assessment principles are extended across pedestrian door and entrance control systems.
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Expanded entrance control guidance: The standard provides risk reduction guidance for systems used by disabled people, children, and others with impaired mobility or awareness.
- Updated signage guidance: The revision includes updated signage recommendations to support user safety and awareness.