Door Industry Journal - Spring 2018

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A regular comment column, brought to you by Bob Perry, CEO, Door and Hardware Federation

Let’s talk about associations Trade bodies, be they associations, federations and the like, have been in existence for many years. The objectives of trade bodies are many and varied but gone are the days when their main purpose was to provide manufacturers the facility to huddle in a room and agree on employee wage increases and customer price increases. So, we objectives? Well, dhf now represents a number of different industry sectors and the sectors each have their own individual requirements and objectives. For example, in the Building Hardware Group, one of the main functions is to be involved in product standards, many of which are then certified by third party test houses. A lot of work also goes on behind the scenes with insurance companies, Secured by Design, NHBC and so on to ensure that the product standards are commercially accepted and used by the building industry. The objectives of other dhf groups are very different, particularly the groups involved in door and gate installation. These sectors are faced with a complex amount of legislation and standards, particularly the Machinery Directive. It would be easy for dhf to say: “Here are the relevant documents … sort it out yourselves.” We do not do that - we go a step further. We run training courses and, with membership consultation, produce codes of practice such as TS 011 for automated gates and the new TS 012 for industrial door and garage door companies in order to help our members easily understand what they have to do to be on the right side of the law and stay out of court. So dhf is doing as much as it can to ensure that compliant, safe installations are the norm rather than the exception. That is one of dhf ’s key objectives. have made progress … thank goodness! But what about the dhf … what are its key

Bob Perry, dhf CEO

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THE door industry journal spring 2018