Safety contact rail or safety contact element

A safety contact rail (1) for power-driven devices or a safety contact element (2), as a switch hose with an elastic hollow section (4) within which there are a plurality of strip-like electrically conductive projections (6) that are isolated from one another by nonconductive cross sections, said conductive projections (6) generating a switching pulse upon coming into contact with one another, characterized in that there are at least four of said strip-like electrically conductive projections (6) which are identical in form and arranged evenly distributed within said hollow section (4), the cross-section surfaces of each of said projections (6) are essentially definable by a small triangle and a large right triangle, each having legs of unequal length, each said large triangle having its hypotenuse connected to the inner periphery of said hollow section (4) or forming the outer periphery of said hollow section (4), the hypotenuses being correspondingly curved, and each of said small triangles having its long leg adjacent to one of said large triangles in such a fashion that the short leg of said large triangle and the short leg of said small triangle form straight lines.