A world in which everyone can use lifts and escalators safely and without worries – that’s what Liftinstituut has been working towards since 1933. As an organization that is passionate about safety, we share our knowledge and experience with the world around us, in the first instance through safety inspections and certification processes. Every year we help tens of thousands of building owners, building managers and manufacturers provide the ultimate proof of the safety of their installation: the silver Liftinstituut inspection mark. We also share our knowledge by offering training courses and guidance services, organizing safety campaigns, guidance on the creation of inspection regimes and participating in standardization committees.
A world in which every lift and escalator is safe
When it comes to safety and expertise, we are a trusted inspection body. Our judgement is independent, transparent, consistent, and fair, giving our customers confidence in our conclustions. This absolute reliability pervades our entire organization. After all, it is important that our customers can count on us, which is why we continuously improve our planning, services, and inspection reports, helping to save time and reduce organizational effort. From inspector to administrator and from director to planner, we adopt a customer-focused approach and keep to our promises.
This is the only way to make working with Liftinstituut more than worthwhile for our customers. And it is the only way to ensure that we, and all 200 of our employees, can keep working every day to realize our dream: a world in which every lift and escalator is safe.
What sets us apart?
- Our way of working: better together
Certification processes have to be executed quickly and efficiently. For this reason, Liftinstituut will happily take a look at every stage of the development of elevators, escalators, or facade maintenance equipment. This will give you a quick answer to the questions: ‘Are we on the right track?’ and ‘If we continue to develop this product, can it meet certification requirements?’. Rejection, disappointment, and unnecessary costs are avoided, and no time is wasted. - Notified Body
As a Notified Body (NoBo), we certify lifts, safety components, and machinery products according to EU directives and regulations. See our accreditation by the Dutch Council for Accreditation on the website www.rva.nl, search for accreditation scope C067. - Accredited Elevator/Escalator Certification Organization
As an Accredited Elevator/Escalator Certification Organization (AECO), we certify elevators, escalators, components and functions for the North American market according to code ASME A17.7/CSA B44.7. See our accreditation by the ANSI National Accreditation Board ANAB on the website www.anab.ansi.org, search for accreditation scope #0842. - Lift Certification Body
As a Lift Certification Body, accredited against ISO 8100-20/-21/22/23 standards we can enable you to launch a product throughout the world. See our accreditation by the ANSI National Accreditation Board ANAB on the website www.anab.ansi.org, search for accreditation scope #0842.
OUR COMPLIANCE CODE
Liftinstituut’s values and principles of conducting business are described in Liftinstituut’s Compliance code. It provides a framework for our everyday business decisions. This includes dealing with other employees, customers, suppliers, society at large, government authorities, regulators, investors and other business partners.
- Integrity
Expertise, impartiality, independency and integrity are in our DNA. As a worldwide service provider in lift and escalator expertise, we think that a solid culture of integrity policy and ethical behavior is key in the way we do business. We only issue certificates and reports that objectively represent the actual results and findings. - Conflicts of interest
Our policy is to avoid conflicts of interest in our business transactions and services. Our employees are committed to avoid these conflicts. Liftinstituut’s Compliance code sets out the guidelines for them. - Confidentiality and protection of data
We respect the confidentiality and privacy of client’s information and ensure adequate protection of this information. - Anti-bribery
Our independence and impartiality are non-negotiable. We prohibit all forms of bribery, faud and corruption, including the offering or acceptance of any improper advantage or benefit. - Health and safety
As an inspection and certification organization safety is our main priority. Therefore we take all the necessary measures for the safety and health of our employees. By means of risk analysis, health and safety training for employees and an open culture that encourages reporting incidents, we maintain our high health and safety standards. - Fair labour
Liftinstituut is committed to meet its social responsibility towards employees and society. We use fair and appropriate wage and working conditions, do not tolerate any form of discrimination, and maintain a zero tolerance policy of abuse, bullying or harassment in the workplace.
Statement of impartiality - Liftinstituut Organisation
Core values
Liftinstituut, as a certification body, strives to improve safety in the application of e.g. hoisting, lifting, and transport machines. The foundation of this purpose is formed by a concept that is included in its name: “Liftinstituut”.
Liftinstituut is an organisation that acts as a connecting link between the parties involved in (lift) safety, but is also an organisation that is absolutely independent, despite the fact that the organisation is active amongst all the parties involved with the execution of its activities.
To guarantee and continue this position, the management of Liftinstituut has conformed to basicly three conditions that must always be complied with and which forms the basis for all its activities and decisions:
- Impartiality
Employees of Liftinstituut prevent influence by any parties in every form of decision making, whether or not they are clients or other parties involved with the decision making. - Objectivity
In all their decision making, the employees of Liftinstituut base themselves on knowledge and facts, whereby the objective is to involve as much as possible, but at least all available information, with the decision making. - Independency
Despite the continuing commercialising of the company and the environment in which Liftinstituut operates, it is prevented that decision making is influenced by employees of the organisation due to financial or any other dependency of market participants in the perimeter of the organisation.
Linked to above three items, all employees are obligated through their contractual employment with Liftinstituut. The management of Liftinstituut reports to internal and external (e.g. A17 committee) boards of experts on its defined core values and confirms compliance of these values through recognition such as govermental requirements for certification bodies and accreditation certificates issued by the Accreditation Body (ANSI - ID#0842).
- Liftinstituut B.V. is a subsidiary company of Liftinstituut Holding B.V.
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