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The Loading Dock Safety Gate from PS DOORS keeps your team safe while keeping your dock running efficiently. When closed, it’s simple, counterbalanced design significantly reduces the danger of falls from docks, bays or exposed edges. Part of PS DOORS’ Safety Access™ line of products, the Loading Dock Safety Gate is easily lifted by truck drivers or dock workers during deliveries. Built from heavy duty materials, this gate is expertly counterbalanced to enable easy, one hand operation. This gate operates smoothly, utilizing a slam-proof dampening system with no pinch points to protect users and products alike.

Flood proofing is an investment in protecting your building. It gives you peace of mind and can drastically reduce the risk of costly flooding disasters. When flooding happens, the ability to react quickly and protect infrastructure is critical. Using barriers to stop floodwaters from reaching damageable portions of your building is considered a dry flood proofing method. Dry flood proofing is commonly used to protect openings such as pedestrian doors, garage doors, driveways, dock doors, building exteriors and storefronts.

PS DOORS has taken its industry-leading Ladder Safety Gate and added additional top-rail-to-floor protection for personnel working on elevated platforms, mezzanines and ladder ways. This new full height version is both OSHA- and ANSI-compliant and is self-closing to reduce the chance of falls and ensure that protection is in place when it’s needed most.

PS DOORS has addressed two facility management concerns in one door with its new PD-522FFR Fire Rated Flood Door. The only door of its kind, the PD-522FFR is specifically engineered for interior and exterior openings requiring watertight flood protection and a 90-minute fire rating. Best of all, it provides this dual-defense functionality while still acting as a normal-use swing door.

Grand Forks, North Dakota, August 2, 2016 / PR Newswire / – PS DOORS is now adapting three of its most successful flood prevention products for the purpose of industrial spill containment. Proven to stop floodwaters, these doors and barriers will now keep workers, facilities and the environment safe from industrial spills.

A new product from PS DOORS is poised to solve one of the most problematic issues associated with industrial and commercial roof hatches: wind. The revolutionary Slidewise™ Roof Hatch opens horizontally. Unlike traditional tip-up hatches, the Slidewise Roof Hatch is unaffected by the wind gusts, significantly reducing maintenance and replacement costs while improving safety for users.

PS DOORS now offers two completely customizable solutions that are specifically engineered for water treatment facilities. Its monorail doors and sliding roof hatches, which are part of the company’s PS Access Solutions™ line of products, are 100 percent customizable to help improve efficiency and safety.

PS DOORS will announce its new SafeMezz360™ mezzanine safety gate at MODEX 2016. This innovative new gate keeps workers safe during the important but potentially hazardous job of loading and unloading forklifted materials to and from a mezzanine. SafeMezz360 is an ANSI- and OSHA-compliant fall protection product that creates a foolproof, fully enclosed area that keeps workers safe from the elevated mezzanine edge.

A power plant customer in a high elevation and high wind location needed a large industrial door to put on their quonset.

A customer called PS DOORS with a problem. He needed several inspection ports constructed out of 316L stainless steel that would hold up in his facility’s corrosive environment. These ports needed to be welded to various round or square pipes containing corrosive gas and abrasive materials. The lids had to bolt on. He had exhausted his resources trying to find a manufacturer to create these custom inspection ports for the oil and gas industry.