Ontario elevator report: 5 key recommendations
Posted Jan 25, 2018 12:05:35 AM.
Last Updated Jan 25, 2018 01:20:18 AM.
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TORONTO – Five key recommendations in the report by retired justice Douglas Cunningham aimed at enhancing elevator availability in Ontario:
— Require reporting of outages over 48 hours when 50 per cent of building’s elevators affected along with plan to fix problem
— Set up public database on individual elevator performance and make information on outages available to building users
— Set building code standards for minimum number of elevators in new highrises
— Ensure proper preventive maintenance is performed
— Define and measure availability as “the ability of a building’s elevating devices to transport persons as and when required”
(SOURCE: TSSA Elevator Availability Study)
