Security and safety for preschools and daycare centers: door solutions from ASSA ABLOY
Every day, teachers in daycare centers and preschools rely on secure door solutions: they are responsible for supervising the children and must prevent them from leaving the building unnoticed. At the same time, emergency escape routes must not be blocked. The Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (BFU) also recommends protecting pinching points to prevent painful pinching injuries to children’s hands. In Germany and France, finger protection on doors in childcare facilities is even a legal requirement.
ASSA ABLOY (Schweiz) AG has developed safety and security solutions that combine these safety and security requirements in preschools and daycare centers – with intelligent escape route locking, certified finger protection, and flexible access control.
What makes safety and security in preschools and daycare centers complex?
Safety and security in preschools and daycare centers means more than just locked doors. The challenge is to cover three different situations at the same time: normal day-to-day operations, drop-off and pick-up phases, and emergency situations. There is also protection against injuries caused by the doors themselves.
Supervisory duty during daily operation
In ongoing operation, teachers bear full responsibility: children must not leave the building unattended. At the same time, adults with access authorization must be able to open and close the doors easily at any time – for breaks, errands, or emergencies.
Challenges:
- Locked doors for children
- Accessibility for authorized adults at all times
- No time-consuming searching for keys in everyday operations
Free access during drop-off and pick-up times
It’s very busy in the morning and at noon: parents expect free access to the facility without waiting times. Teachers cannot walk to the door and open it every time there is a knock or ring.
Challenges:
- At certain times: freely accessible doors
- Outside these times: immediate automatic locking
- Control over who gets access and when
- Easy access for strollers and people with reduced mobility
Escape route safety in an emergency
In the event of a fire, escape routes in the preschool must be accessible at all times – even for the children themselves and without the help of adults. It must be possible to open doors in escape routes quickly and without auxiliary means in the escape direction at all times. Electrically controlled locking devices must also comply with standard SN EN 13637.
Challenges:
- Enable children to leave independently in an emergency
- No delayed opening, even in the event of a power failure
- At the same time: alarm in the event of unauthorized activation (children playing)
- Compliance with the SN EN 13637 standard for electrical locks
Injury prevention on doors
Children can pinch their hands between the door leaf and frame on secondary closing edges, which can be painful. The BFU (Swiss Council for Accident Prevention) expressly recommends protecting such pinching points. Appropriate finger protection on the doors is therefore essential for safety in preschool.
Challenges:
- Safety for all doors with access for children
- Possible retrofitting on existing doors
- Certified solutions that meet safety standards
Planet finger protection for preschools and daycare centers
Find out what finger protection requirements apply to doors in preschools and how Planet solutions meet the BFU recommendations. Compactly laid out with technical details on cover profiles, protective roller blinds, and door stoppers.
Why ASSA ABLOY for doors in preschools and daycare centers?
ASSA ABLOY’s sophisticated one stop shopping solutions combine all requirements for safe and secure preschool doors. The various solutions can be flexibly adapted to the needs of any facility – from simple escape route locking to complete access control with time recording.
- Retrofitting without interruption: You can also install all solutions during operation – without costly conversions or facility closure times.
- Cost-effective package solutions: ASSA ABLOY offers cost-effective packages especially for preschools and daycare centers – without compromising on security.
- Verified legal certainty: The solutions meet the building authority requirements for electrical locking systems in escape routes and are certified in accordance with SN EN 13637.
- Optional: intelligent access control: In combination with electronic access systems, you can also use badges as advertising media and record staff working hours – for easier payroll accounting.
Planet finger protection: protection against pinching
With Planet finger protection, ASSA ABLOY offers a proven system for finger protection on preschool and daycare center doors. Roller blinds for the non-hinge side and cover profiles for the hinge side are quick to install and are also approved for fire doors.
Advantages:
- Easy access for strollers and people with reduced mobility
- Improved room acoustics – reduced noise transmission between group rooms
- Different profile heights for different door types and gap heights
- Special solutions for glazed doors, sliding doors, and uneven floors
- Prevention of light entry and odor transmission under door gaps
Planet drop-down seals: barrier-free access without thresholds
Doors without thresholds are indispensable in preschools and daycare centers, for example, for strollers and everyday operation. Planet drop-down seals automatically close the gap between the door and the floor when closing and at the same time improve sound insulation, which is ideal for rest and sleep areas.
Advantages:
- Easy access for strollers and people with reduced mobility
- Improved room acoustics – reduced noise transmission between group rooms
- Different profile heights for different door types and gap heights
- Special solutions for glazed doors, sliding doors, and uneven floors
- Prevention of light entry and odor transmission under door gaps
effeff and MSL escape route solutions: safe in an emergency
The right mix of effeff and MSL products combines supervisory duty and escape route security: inside next to the door, there is a button at a height of 1.80 meters for adults and an escape route terminal with emergency button at a height of approx. 1.05 meters for children. In an emergency, an alarm sounds, and the door unlocks immediately.
Advantages:
- Time-controlled access control for drop-off and pick-up times
- Panic fittings and MSL eBar for quick evacuation without a key
- EH Exit Controller with advanced control functions
- Complies with standards in accordance with SN EN 13637 for electrical locking systems
- Swiss quality – MSL manufactured in Kleinlützel
effeff escape route technology
MSL escape and rescue routes
Blog posts about preschool safety and security
Finger protection: safely protect small hands
The BFU recommends securing pinching points on preschool doors – Planet finger protection reliably prevents painful pinching.
Secure escape doors with delayed release
Children should not go outside unnoticed, but in an emergency the door must open immediately – the standard SN EN 13637 makes it possible.
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