Legal Issues

The Best Option: A Lawyer With VT Industry Experience

In this Readers Platform, your author talks about how choosing the right counsel can make all the difference. While seemingly narrowly focused, the vertical-transportation (VT) industry is, indeed, multifaceted and...

Hazard Assessments – Assume Nothing

Examining how an elevator service company can comply with OSHA’s requirement to “assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present” OSHA has long had a regulation that requires employers...

So, You’re an HR Manager

This Readers Platform explains the job and growing importance of an HR professional. “Human Resources isn’t just a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.”– Human Resources...

A Defense for When Service Allegedly Falters

Your author discusses what elevator contractors need to know to minimize legal liability. With the growth of cities around the world, the use of vertical transportation has increased. While technology...

How OSHA and the Arbitrary Enforcement of U.S. Government Laws Affect Us All

Observations on the American legal system and OSHA’s attempt to surplant elevator codes In 1925, Franz Kafka published his well-known work, The Trial. The book described a successful professional man...

222 Broadway; photo © John W. Cahill for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

TEI Group Repositions Elevators for Major NYC Conversion

ARCHI-TREAD RELOCATING FROM N.J. TO FLORIDA

Archi-Tread Relocating From N.J. to Florida

Entrance to the Victoria Building, which was built in 1945; photo by SnowyBadger for Wikipedia

Halifax Hospital to Get Elevator Replacement, Upgrades

Stationslift Storingen, a website for reporting broken elevators, was created in response to the structural problem by wheelchair user Kasrt Lovers; image courtesy of X.

Out-of-Order Lifts at Dutch Train Stations Leave Wheelchair Users Stranded

FUJITEC EXPLAINS NEW STRATEGY CENTERED AROUND DIGITAL TWIN CONCEPT

Fujitec Explains New Strategy Centered Around Digital Twin Concept