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...

The residential delivery robot; image courtesy of Hyundai Engineering

Hyundai Launches Residential Delivery Robots in South Korea

The Pinnacle One Yonge jobsite; image courtesy of PERI Canada

PERI Describes Innovative Formwork for Canada’s Tallest Residential Tower

THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY DIES FROM FALLING FROM ESCALATOR HANDRAIL

Three-Year-Old Boy Dies Falling From Escalator Handrail

Lift Comm by TEC is proud of its role in making the 14 St Station Complex fully accessible; image courtesy of Lift Comm.

TEC Subsidiary Lift Comm Continues MTA Accessibility Collaboration

Mareterra; photo © Hufton+Crow for Mareterra

Monaco Sustainable Development With Maspero Lifts Competes