Common Safety Features Found In any Elevator Installation

One of the most common enquiries that often elevator installation firms receive is regarding the safety features in their elevators. 

This enquiry is more common from people getting a residential elevator installed as they are more likely to be used as compared to commercial elevators. 

However, these companies make sure that irrespective of whether residential or commercial elevators, the safety features are as per the standards mentioned in the rule books. 

There are numerous safety features that they include in the elevators for their safe and secure operations. 

The backup power feature in your commercial and residential elevator will activate several safety features. This system can be recharged with an automatic charging system and it works automatically when normal power function and power supply is absent.

The agencies make sure that this does not happen at any cost, but in case there is some accidental power failure and emergency battery failure also, there is an emergency flooring device installed to allow passengers to reach the nearest floor downwards. 

As soon as the nearest floor arrives, the emergency battery will work to open the door and allow passengers to exit the lift safely. This feature is available at no extra elevator installation cost.

An emergency lighting system is also available in these elevator installations for residential and commercial facilities. In the event of power failure, this emergency setting system will automatically illuminate the interiors with the help of an emergency battery system.

The alarm button is located inside the elevator cab and it gets activated in the case of emergency. Any passenger inside the cab can use this alarm button to alert anyone nearby that the elevator requires some assistance in an emergency. 

This alarm button comes in very handy in the sudden failure of lift mechanism or sudden power supply outage.

There are door interlock systems also installed at every door entrance. The function of this system is to prevent the operation of the elevator unless the hoistway door is closed and locked. 

The benefit of this feature is that it will prevent the opening of the hoistway door from the lending.

Right inside the elevator installation cost, you will also get a final limit switch that is used to cut off all the power to the elevator in case of upper normal terminal stopping devices failure.

Levelling device is basically a two-way levelling device used to maintain a car within 13 mm of the landing part. This levelling device is used to avoid any tripping hazard during the entry or exit inside the lift.

Apart from all these features, you will also get additional safety features in your residential elevators such as handrails to provide support and a telephone inside the cab to connect to the nearby landline. 

There will also be a flow control valve to control the speed of elevator. A device known as slab broken cable device will also be there to stop and sustain the elevator, if hosting cables become slack or weaken.