New content, major revisions characterize latest edition.
The long-awaited, thoroughly updated 2025 edition of the Elevator Industry Field Employees’ Safety Handbook is now available in digital and print formats. The opening lines of its updated preface simply and effectively encapsulate the purpose behind the book, reading:
“This book is dedicated to all elevator industry employees and their families. Nothing you do at work today will be more important than going home to your family and loved ones.”
Published every five years, the 220-page pocket-sized, spiral-bound Handbook is designed as a resource for safety information and written processes for elevator industry field employees to help prevent injuries and illnesses resulting from unsafe acts and conditions found in the elevator industry. The book promotes elevator industry jobsite safety through adherence to standard work practices, the elevator industry’s Nine (9) Safety Absolutes and applicable laws and regulations. The book’s safety guidelines are to be viewed as the minimum needed to be deployed by the elevator industry and other trades that work alongside it. It is intended to augment a company’s safety program (policy) and NOT as a complete safety program.
This edition of the Handbook, developed by Elevator World, Inc., the National Association of Elevator Contractors, the National Elevator Industry Education Program and the National Elevator Industry, Inc., over the past two years, includes major revisions and new content.
The new content includes sections and sub-sections on the following topics:
- Workplace Violence (Section 1.4)
- Confined Space (Section 8.6)
- Silica (Section 14.12)
- Heat Illness Prevention (Section 14.13)
- Mental Health and Well-Being (Section 21)
- Important Crisis Hotlines (Section 21.1)
- Suicide Prevention (Section 21.2)
- Aluminum Beam Reference Chart (Section 23.3)
- Re-roping Pre-start Checklist (Section 23.4)
The book’s major revisions include updated content and/or graphics in the following sections:
- Section 5 – Electrical Safe Work Practices
- Section 6 – Jumpers (Content was aligned with the OSHA Alliance’s Best Practices for Jumpers)
- Section 7 – Lockout/Tagout
- Section 8 – Hoistways and Machine Rooms
- 8.1.1 Top-of-Car Access/Egress
- 8.1.1.1 Accessing Top-of-Car
- Section 11 – Moving Work Platforms (Running Platforms, Temporary Movable Work Platforms and False Cars) & Temporary Construction Elevators
- Section 16 – Escalators and Moving Walks
- Section 18 – Service and Repair PPE Hazard Assessment
- Section 23.3 – Beams (Timber beams and planks have been removed, and updated steel beam charts have been added.)
Two new elements are being used throughout the book as helpful guides to readers. Sections that relate to a particular Safety Absolute denote that in both the Table of Contents and opening page of the section. Section numbers have been placed on the footers of each page to help readers more easily navigate the book.
The 2025 Handbook retails for US$18 and is available at Elevator Books. Companies interested in a customized front cover of the Handbook featuring their company logo can pay a US$375 set up/production fee for this new option. Custom books are priced at US$20 apiece, and there is no minimum order requirement. The delivery timetable for custom orders is between six and 10 weeks. The 2025 Handbook is available now in English and will soon be available in Spanish. A Canadian edition of the Handbook will be available soon in both English and French.
Elevator Industry Nine (9) Safety Absolutes
- Fall Protection
- Electrical Safe Work Practices
- Jumpers
- Lockout/Tagout
- Mechanical Stored Energy
- Car Top Access/Agress
- Pit Access/Egress
- Moving Work Platforms (Running and Working Platforms, Temporary Movable Platforms and False Cars)
- Hoisting and Rigging
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