In addition the hardware must be exposed and usable from both sides when the sliding door is in the fully open.
Sliding door breakaway hardware.
These products also have applications outside the healthcare universe such as offices laboratories equipment rooms etc.
This is called emergency breakaway to function as an emergency breakaway door an icu door has to breakaway at any point full closed full open or anywhere in between.
One releasing operation must unlatch the door for egress.
Esa300 sliding door commercial full breakout automatic sliding door the esa300 is an extruded aluminum stile and rail door designed for interior or exterior applications where emergency breakout of the sliding and sidelite panels is required.
Barn door systems horton automatics has developed a broad offering of manual sliding barn door configurations for the healthcare market.
Hardware operable hardware on sliding doors must be operable without tight grasping pinching or twisting of the wrist with a limited amount of force and must be mounted between 34 inches and 48 inches above the floor.