Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation
February 12, 2026
At the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation, rider safety is not something we talk about in theory. It is something we actively take into communities, workplaces, and classrooms across the country.
If you’ve visited our Events Calendar recently, you may have noticed how full it is. That’s because EESF delivers safety education through two powerful channels: EESF Program Tours and EESF Partner Tours, supported by a growing suite of online trainings and industry learning opportunities.
Together, these efforts ensure our mission reaches people where they live, learn, work, and ride.
EESF Program Tours: Safety That Shows Up in Person
EESF Program Tours are led by Kelsey Nay, Program and Development Director, who brings rider safety directly into communities nationwide.
As Kelsey puts it:
“When I’m on the EESF Program Tour, it means I’m taking our mission directly into the communities that need it most. As Program and Development Director, my role is to ensure our safety education doesn’t just exist as a resource on a website or a printed brochure, it becomes a lived experience. By visiting fire stations, schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and community centers in person, we turn our programming into something tangible and memorable.
These tours are where safety becomes personal, where education becomes experience, and where trust is built face to face.
EESF Partner Tours and Industry Education: Safety That Scales
EESF Partner Tours and EESF’s online education initiatives are led by Executive Director Amber Catlin-Kolodziej and focus on equipping industry professionals to extend rider safety education into their own communities.
This work includes Think Tanks, SafeTAmbassador Trainings, Podcasts, Public Awareness Content Creation, and the upcoming SafeTalks designed for Toolbox Talks.
Through Partner Tours, Lunch and Learns, Think Tanks, SafeTAmbassador Trainings, and soon SafeTalks, EESF is building a scalable education model that empowers the industry to serve as ambassadors for public safety. Catlin-Kolodziej states:
“Safety education cannot live in one building or with one team. It has to travel. It has to be shared. When we equip the industry to carry that message forward, we are not just extending our reach, we are strengthening the culture of safety in every community those professionals touch.”
The professionals who design, install, maintain, and modernize elevators and escalators already carry deep expertise. These programs give them clear tools and shared language to translate that knowledge into rider safety education. When industry and education work together, safety doesn’t stay centralized. It multiplies.
“Our mission is simple: make rider safety so accessible and so consistent that it becomes second nature in every community. That only happens when education moves beyond our office and into the hands of the people who power this industry.”
Behind the Scenes: Turning Vision Into Action
None of this happens without structure, coordination, and follow-through.
Operations Director Laurie Dueitt pulls all of our planning together into the organized systems and tidy files that make everything possible. From scheduling tours and managing logistics to coordinating communications, registrations, materials, and timelines, Laurie ensures that ideas turn into action and programs move from planning to execution.
Her work creates the operational backbone that allows EESF to get the word out, show up prepared, and deliver consistent, professional safety education across every channel. It’s the quiet but essential work that keeps everything running smoothly behind the scenes.
One Mission. Many Touchpoints.
From fire stations and schools to conference rooms and webinars, EESF meets people where they are.
Program Tours bring safety directly into communities. Partner Tours and online education equip the industry to extend that reach. Operations keeps it all moving forward.
Together, they form a connected ecosystem of learning, trust, and impact.
If you’d like to host a Program Tour, participate in a Partner Tour, or join one of our upcoming trainings, we invite you to explore our Events Calendar and get involved.
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Because rider safety doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when people show up, share knowledge, and work together.
Warmly, The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation Team