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 125th Street and Broadway MTA station; photo by General Punger for Wikipedia

Inaccessibility at Key NYC Subway Station Focus of Meeting

Mills Park Tower; image courtesy of apartments.com

Elevator Modernization Underway at Chicagoland OPHA Tower

The event is planned at SPEEDERS in Richmond, B.C.; image courtesy of SPEEDERS.

CECA Western Region Meeting and Networking Event Planned

The event provides lift professionals with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Shorts’ advanced Langer & Laumann Door Operator; image courtesy of Langer & Laumann.

Shorts Again Offers Roadshow For Lift Professionals

ALABAMA TOWN CONSIDERING FINES FOR FAULTY ELEVATORS

Alabama Town Considering Fines For Faulty Elevators