Keeping Seniors Safe

Posted Monday April 16, 2018

Posted By: Jeff Lemoine

Category: Elevating Devices,Elevating Devices

An Elevated Risk for a Vulnerable Population

One of TSSA’s primary objectives is to ensure public safety when elevators are being used; this is particularly so  where seniors are concerned. This is done by increasing awareness around what facility owners, managers and  operators can do to mitigate the risk of elevator-related injuries to residents in retirement and long-term care homes.

With this, Technical Safety & Standards Association (TSSA) is working to encourage owners, managers and operators within retirement facilities to:

• Leave the doors open on devices that have automatic firefighter’s emergency operation (FEO) unless the elevator has been called from another floor;
• Extend the door time to the maximum allowable by code on those devices without FEO;
• Decrease the speed of door(s) to best accommodate the ability of your residents;
• Adjust closing force below the code maximum, yet sufficient to close the door;
• Eliminate door pre-opening to ensure the elevator is level before the doors open; and
• If your elevator has full automatic FEO you should consider disabling the nudging operation as it is not required during normal operation. Your contractor should ensure that the elevator is still compliant, and any smoke sensitive door reopening devices are by-passed during FEO.

For more information, please download our Keeping Seniors Safe brochure linked below.

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