We do not compromise on the safety and health of those who use our products and work for our business. We believe that all injuries, work-related illnesses and accidents are preventable, and we have the highest standards of safety and health performance in place.
We design and build our lifts and escalators with many safety features to help give users peace of mind. We also actively provide information to passengers and work together with those who manage lifts and escalators to maintain and improve safe usage and operation.
Product safety
We move more than 2 billion people every day. Delivering safe and reliable products and services is an essential element of the way we work.
Employee safety
At the end of each day, we want employees to return home safely. We work hard to continuously improve safety within Schindler.
Lift safety features
Today's lift systems adhere to strict safety codes and standards and incorporate a wide variety of features designed to help reduce the chances of accidents and give passengers a quick, dependable ride. Some of the numerous safety features offered include:
- Safety brakes
- Door sensors
- Door closing devices
- Hoistway door interlocks
- Hoistway safety switches
- Door restraints
- Emergency evacuation feature
- Pit buffers
- Emergency alarm switches
- Emergency telephones or communications devices
- Emergency lighting
- Emergency power
- Fire emergency systems.
Escalator & moving walk safety features
Today's escalators and moving walks are designed to adhere to strict safety code requirements, and incorporate a variety of safety features designed to encourage proper ridership and prevent accidents.Some of the safety features offered include:
- Sensors to trigger automatic shutdown if a component is outside of its normal position
- Skirt brushes to help prevent objects from being caught in the escalator
- Handrail motion detectors
- Step integrity monitors
- Missing step monitors
- Combplate detectors
- Step level monitors
- Skirt switches
- Emergency stop buttons
- Controlled stop braking
- Understep lighting
- Yellow combfingers
- Handrail guards.