Car position detection method in an elevator apparatus and a safety monitoring device

An elevator apparatus, the reference position switch is a normally closed switch that opens the circuit by the car is moved to the reference position. The hoistway is installed is detected member. Kagoniwa, the detected member detector is provided for detecting the object to be detected. Car position detection unit, the learning operation is carried out in advance, and stores the movement of the car from being detected object to be detected to the car by the reference position switch is detected as the detected position information of the object to be detected. Also, car position detection unit, after learning operation completes, the information from the detected member detector, and the stored detected position information, the information from the movement amount detector for outputting a signal corresponding to the movement of the car detecting the position of the car based on.