Otis Wins Award for Coast Mass Transit Line in Singapore

Otis has received the “Safety Excellence Award” from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) Singapore, which praised the company’s safety management processes and best practices at stages 1 to 3 of Thomson-East Coast (TEL) Mass Rapid Transit Line, Yahoo reported on March 31. Noting that LTA presents a biennial award for a land transport system in Singapore, Otis received the award in the Electrical & Mechanical Contractor (Major & Minor) category. The LTA award recognizes Otis’ innovation in implementing online quizzes as part of its safety training for colleagues. The company supplied and installed 419 escalators, 169 Gen2^® lifts and eight passenger conveyors for the TEL, Singapore’s sixth Mass Rapid Transit line, to help parents with strollers, elderly passengers and persons with disabilities move safely between different levels of the underground stations. Grant Mooney, managing director of Otis Southeast Asia & Singapore, said the company is “honored to support LTA in the TEL project, which will bring residents in the east and along the North-South Corridor of Singapore closer to a train station and, hence, provide faster access to the city.”