In this elevator rescue training video, instructors Chris Smity and Geoff Davis delve into safety protocols for working on the car top elevator control panel. The instructors emphasize the abundance of moving parts and potential hazards. They introduce two key controls: a red mushroom switch for cutting power and an inspection mode switch that disables regular controls and allows only manual operation from the top, highlighting the importance of using these elevator controls to ensure safety while working on elevators.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

When we’re getting on top of these things, there’s stuff everywhere. A lot of moving parts, right?

Car top controls, we see that red mushroom switch in the middle there as well. Same thing as this switch. You hit that; you’re securing power to the elevator. There’s a selector switch there that says inspection mode. I always, anytime I get on top of an elevator, I put it in inspection.

That’s the controls for the elevator mechanic to be able to move that elevator up and down the shaft. We are not riding that thing up and down. What that does do, though, is locks out all the other controls to the elevator.

If the elevators in inspection mode, the only thing that elevator is going to listen to, is the directions getting from that pedestal on the top.

Inspection mode locks out every control but that one there. I use that as a stop gap safety as well. So, I kill the power. I put an inspection mode. I’m very comfortable that that all was secure enough to move somebody out. Typically, green but not always. On newer elevators it’s always going to be green. It’s always going to be a two or three position switch that says “Run Inspection”.

And then the other thing you got to be cognizant of, when you put an inspection, they’re going to have two buttons, one says “up” and one says “down”, don’t touch, those.